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Dust bowl
The dust bowl was an event that affected farmers greatly. 350 million tons of topsoil had been blown from the Great Plains to the east coast. This changed weather patterns and left the Great Plains unusually dry. Farmers had a difficult time with their crops and had to overcome this issue by finding crops that grow better in dryer conditions. This ended in 1936. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression was a worldwide economic crisis from the stock market crash in the United States. Unemployment, bank failures, and homelessness was at an all time high around the world. The depression was from 1929-1941. -
Hitler Appointed as Chancellor
After the stock market crash and the beginning of the Great Depression president Paul von Hindenburg announced Hitler Chancellor of the Reichstag. -
Enabling Act
Reichstag passed the enabling act acter Hitler was appointed as chancellor. The Enabling Act gave Hitler and his cabinet the authority to enact laws without legislative approval. This allowed him to set the budget and chance the constitution without permission from Reichstag. -
Nazi Party
The Nazi party was declared as Germanys only legal political party. -
Long Knives
The night of Long Knives was when Hitler stuck in 21 cities sending execution squads to kill leaders of Nazi storm troopers who he could not control, Nazi founders, and former government officials. -
Nuremberg Laws
The Nuremberg laws were laws that allowed campaigns against Jews, boycotts, and other acts of violence. These laws forbade marriage and intercourse between Jews and German citizens. The Jewish also lost their German citizenship. -
Carpet Bombing of Guernica
This was the first raid by a modern air force on a European civilian population. Guernica was destroyed . -
Japanese Invasion of China
On September 18th 1931 an explosion destroyed a railroad track near the city of Mukden. The Japanese blamed Chinese nationalist for this incident and thus began a big conflict between the two. The was didn't start until a few years later and ended in 1945. -
The Munich Agreement
The Munich Agreement was a settlement reached between Germany, Great Britain, France, and Italy that permitted Germany annexation of the Sudetenland in Czechoslovakia.