7.2

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    Great Depression

  • Stock market crash

    Stock market goes down causing the depression to impact all in the United States
  • Dust Bowls

    Mainly affecting farmers in the Midwest the dust bowls created drowths that prevented crops to grow creating for farmers to have no food and money
  • Bank collapse continues

    The fourth largest bank collapses which leads for President hoover to bring up the income tax by 25% creating for unemployment to be at 16%.
  • President FDR Elected

    Roosevelt was elected as president he entered officially in march in the middle of the Great Depression.
  • The First Hundred Days

    FDR passed 15 laws to deal with the depression in his first hundred days of presidency.
  • New Deal

    Pass of many acts to help with the depression the first act was Banking Act that helped prevent the closure and failures of Banks in the nation.
  • Social Security Act

    Income is given to the elderly and people with disabilities due to their social security
  • The WWorks progress Administration

    Created to hire people due to the high unemployment due to the depression.
  • FDR elected for a second term

    FDR is elected for a second time due to his improvement on the nation during the depression
  • World War two begins

    The world war starts in Europe and the United states is trying to stay neutral and out of the war
  • Defense Budget Increase

    The Budget Increased due to the bad relations with Axis power.
  • Draft Bill

    The united States passes a bill were all men between 21 and 35 are eligible to be drafted be even when not in war.
  • Atlantic Charter

    It was a statement released by the United States were FDR and Churchill talk about the countries plan after world war 2. This indirectly confirmed the United States standing in the war.
  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan drops a bomb in the Naval base in Hawaii called pearl harbor this killed millions of American and also destroyed American battle ships.
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    World War 2

  • CORE founded

    CORE (congress of racial equality) due to more minorities getting jobs that once belonged to men it also lead to a lot of disparities and inequalities leading for CORE to be created to represent this minorities for racial equalities.
  • Executive order 9066

    FDR signed a bill that allowed for all Japanese that lived in the west coast to be moved to camps that were far way from the west coast due to the fear that they will be helping the enemy Japan.
  • Propaganda for women

    Propaganda to encourage women to help in the war effort back home by working in factories or other jobs that would help in the war effort one of the most famous propaganda was Rosie the Riveter.
  • The Battle of Stalingrad

    A battle between the soviet and the Germans this war lead for German troops to start retreating from the East this was a turning point that favored the allies.
  • D-Day

    An operation operated by the allies that landed in Normandy this was one of the largest water operations until this day.
  • The Yalta Conference

    The allies talked about Germany surrender and made plans for after the war to prevent another world war from happening.
  • Battle of Okinawa

    A series of battles in Ryukyu Islands and also of the largest in the pacific.
  • Island Hoping

    This was a strategy used by the allies to capture back the islands that would be the most useful to reach Japan.
  • Atomic Bomb dropped in Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Due to Japan refusal in retreating from the war the United Stater dropped a new developed bomb called a Nuclear Bomb.