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Great Depression
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Stock Market Crash
American stock market crashed in autumn, share prices collapsed -
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Dustbowl
Name given to the southern plains which suffered severe drought which caused famine, diseases, storms etc -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
raised import duties to protect American businesses and farmers -
Food riots and banking failure
Riots begin as people struggle to find food and bank crash in December which is the largest bank failure at a time -
President Roosevelt election
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt giving his New Deal speech and is elected as president -
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New Deal Introduced
Introduced economic relief ideas to re inflate the economy -
Emergency Banking Act
Roosevelt order nation off the gold standard. Aimed at restoring public confidence in nations financial system after bank holiday -
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Second New Deal
Second New Deal which involved; Social Security Act, WPA, and Wagner Act -
Creation of WPA
Job program designed to employ unemployed Americans with work and income -
President Roosevelt second presidency term
Franklin. D Roosevelt elected for his second term -
Economic Growth
Economy starts to grow but unemployment was still very high -
Axis power formed
Germany, Italy, and japan sign the Tripartite Pact, AKA the Axis Power -
Lend Lease Act passed
allowed the united states to lend or lease war supplies to any nation -
War bonds on sale
Many Americans supported the war effort by purchasing war bonds -
Pearl Harbor Attack
Japanese planes flew over PH, and bombed every ship on sight. -
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World War 2
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Battle of the Coral Sea
naval and air engagement in which a U.S fleet turned back a Japanese invasion -
Office of Wartime
Responsible for formulating and implementing information programs to promote, activities and aims of the U.S government -
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Battle of Stalingrad
soviet union inflicted a catastrophic defeat on the German Army -
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Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
U.S halted Japanese efforts to disrupt supply to Australia and New Zealand -
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Tehran conference
Agreed that British and U.S would begin drive to liberate France in spring -
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Leyte Gulf battle
ended the Japanese Navy's capacity to fight as an organized force -
election of 1944
FDR against Thomas Dewey for presidency, FDR won with 53% popular vote -
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Yalta conference
Agreed Germany would be divided into occupational zones, soviets would enter the war against Japan