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Depression and World War II
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Black Tuesday of 1929
black tuesday lost millions of dollars because it hit Wall Street -
Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers -
Roosevelt’s Hundred Days
the day Franklin Roosevelt assumed the presidency, was desperate. -
Roosevelt’s Bank Holiday
At 1:00 a.m. on Monday, March 6, President Roosevelt issued Proclamation 2039 ordering the suspension of all banking transactions, effective immediately. -
Tennessee Valley Authority founded
The Tennessee Valley Authority is the nation's largest public power provider and a corporation of the U.S. government. -
Works Progress Administration created
In April 1935, the WPA was established under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act. -
The Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains. -
Social Security Act passed
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term by the President's Committee on Economic Security, under Frances Perkins, and passed by Congress as part of the New Deal. -
Adolf Hitler invades Poland
Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. this is what started World War II. -
Auschwitz liberated by Allied Forces
Auschwitz, also known as Auschwitz-Birkenau, opened in 1940 and was the largest of the Nazi concentration and death camps. -
The London Blitz
300 German bombers raid London, in the first of 57 consecutive nights of bombing. -
FDR elected to third presidential term
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected for an unprecedented third term as president of the United States. -
FDR elected to second presidential term
Franklin Delano Roosevelt is re-elected for an unprecedented third term as president of the United States. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
V-J Day
Victory over Japan Day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event. -
Executive Order 9066
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in 1941, Roosevelt came under increasing pressure by military -
Battle of Midway Island
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term
Roosevelt rose above personal and political challenges to emerge as one of the nation’s most revered presidents. -
D-Day
the Battle of Normandy, which lasted from June 1944 to August 1944, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany’s control. -
FDR elected to fourth presidential term
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office. -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. -
FDR dies
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, commonly known by his initials FDR, was an American statesman and political leader who served as the 32nd President of the United States. -
V-E Day
Great Britain and the United States celebrate Victory in Europe Day. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the Japanese city of Hiroshima. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan’s unconditional surrender.
