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The Stock Market Crash
President Hoovers response to the event symbolizing the beginning of the Great Depression would change the role of the federal government in times of economic crisis.Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 the fall began. -
Unemployment rises in the US
Over 3.2 million Americans are unemployed, more than twice as many than in October 1929. President Herbert Hoover says that the worst of financial crisis will be worth within 60 days. -
Star Spangled Banner
In 1931 the Star Spangled Banner was written by Francis Scott Key inspired by the sight of the America flag. Francis Scott Key was a gifted amateur poet. Inspired by the sight of the American flag flying over Fort McHenry the morning after the bombardment, he scribbled the initial verse of his song on the back of a letter. -
Franklin Delano Rosselvelt
A democrat from New York, defeats hoover for the presidency. In his first 100 days in office, Roosevelt launches the new deal including dozens of federal programs and agriculture. -
First women to fly solo
Amelia Earhart becomes the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. In 1937 she is lost over the pacific ocean on a round the world flight. Her plane and the bodies of Earhart and her navigator are never found. -
Adolf Hittler
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. Italian prime minister and dictator Benito Mussolini invade Ethiopa in 1935.. -
Prohibition Ends
Prohibition began with alcohol being banned in the US starting in January 1920. It did little to prevent Americans from drinking and prohibition ends when the 21st amendment is passed. -
Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl begins, causing major ecological and agricultural damage to the Great Plains states : sever drought, heat waves and other factors -
Black Sunday
The Dust Bowl caused over plowed land and drought , leads to several years of huge dust bowl storms in the Great Plains ]. One of the worst days was "Black Sunday", when 20 massive storms roll through the plains and turn the sky black. -
Jesse Owens
In the Olympics in Berlin, a black Alabama native educated at Ohio State University, Jesse Owens wins four gold metals, He breaks Olympic and World records but German dictator Adolf Hitler refuses to recognize the athletes accomplishments. -
Hindenburg catches on fire
A German airship called the Hindenburg catches on fire while it tires to land at Lakehurst Naval station in New Jersey. The airship crashes to the horror of those watching and 36 people die. -
World War II Begins
Hitler orders NAZI Germany's invasion of Poland. Two days later, France and England declare war on Germany beginning World War II
