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Black tuesday of 1929
Inventors traded 16 million shares all in one day and they lost billions of dollars on that day -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term
He was elected the president and beat out a lot of other people, when he came into the presidents seat there were a lot umeployed and he gained most of them back with his programs. -
Adolf Hitler becomes german chancellor
In this year before he had became very powerful and the president Paul figured he should be awared the german chancellor. -
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Roosevelts hundred days
He made a new deal that had fifteen spearate bills and some of them are still around in government today. A national bank holiday, ending the gold standard, glass steagall act, and the FDIC and the federal sercuties act. -
Roosevelts bank holiday
This was a act passed by roosevelt that closed the bank on these days and would reopen them a few days later. They said this is what makes the U.S. payment system today -
Tennessee valley authority founded
This was passed by congress, it is the largest public power provider of a corporation of the U.S. government -
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The dust bowl
The dust bowl is a major drought, the drought was so bad that the topsoil from the ground would swirl up and turn into a black cloud thats where the name dust bowl comes from -
Works progress administration created
This was a part of roosevelts new deal and it allowed employment as a major oppurtunity. -
Social security act passed
This was another one of roosevelts major things and it was a system that would allow to transfer payments in which younger working people can collect social security tax. -
Adolf Hitler invades poland
Adolf Hitler invades poland he dropped bombs and did everything he could to destroy everything in sight. -
FDR elected to third presidentail term
He was elected president for a record setting third time, he beat Thomas Dewey and won the election. -
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The london Blitz
This was when some german bombers were in the skies around london in the afternoon. There was a tactical shift in hitlers attempt to try and subdue great britain. -
Japanese attack on pearl harbor
They were bombed, it was a suprise attack that nobody seen coming. The attack was terrible it killed more than 2300 people and destroyed just about everything. -
Executive order 9066
Franklin roosevelt signed and passed this it was to authorize the secretary of war to prescribe areas as military zones. -
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Battle of midway island
This is the battle that happened after pearl harbor. The americans tried to come back at the japanese for what they had did to them and on june 4 they got there revenge. -
D-day
The allies invade western europe and it was the biggest attack in human history. -
Auschwitz liberated by allied forces
Allied troops moved across europe in a series of offensives against nazi germany they started to see many concentration camp prisoners. They marched into the camp and they were suffereing from starvation and disease. -
FDR elected to fourth presidential term
Roosevelt did it once again nobody thought this could ever happen but he got elected president again. This was his fourth time no other person has did this he set a record for that amount of terms. -
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Battle of the bulge
The germans did another terrible thing in the war that would end it, this was an attempt to try and make the allied front line move west from nothern france to northwestern belgium. -
FDR dies
He died as he was still president, he was a great president that did many great things. We were still fighting the second war when he did and the vice president harry s truman had to take over. -
Victory in Europe day
This was world war ll in europe, general jodl signed a unconditional surrender. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
There was a bomb named fat man that was dropped on japan just a couple days after the other bombed had been dropped, this made japan surrender. -
V-J day
This was a great day for the americans japan surrendered and this ended world war II. This was a very important day in history. -
Atomic bomb dropped on hiroshima
At 8:16 am an american b29 bomber dropped the first atomic bomb. It killed about 80000 people and about 35000 were injured or serioulsy hurt. -
FDR elected to second presidential term
Franklin D Roosevelt was elected president for a second time, nobody usally gets re elected but he was a great president and got elected again.
