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Stock Market Crash
Since black tuesday hit wall street as investors traded 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day, billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
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Great Depression & WWII
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Dust Bowl
The Dirty Thirties was a time of severe dust storms that damaged the economy. It was a severe drought and a failure phenomenon. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term
He beat the Hoover administration. -
First 100 Days
In Roosevelt’s first hundred days in office, he pushed 15 major bills through Congress. -
Tennessee Valley Authority founded
TVA was established by Congress in 1933 to address a wide range of environmental, economic, and technological issues, including the delivery of low-cost electricity and the management of natural resources. -
Roosevelts Bank Holiday
The terms of the presidential proclamation specified that “no such banking institution or branch shall pay out, export, earmark, or permit the withdrawal or transfer in any manner or by any device whatsoever, of any gold or silver coin or bullion or currency or take any other action which might facilitate the hoarding thereof; nor shall any such banking institution or branch pay out deposits, make loans or discounts, deal in foreign exchange, transfer credits from the United States to any place -
Adolf Hitler Becmoes German Chancellor
was appointed as the chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg. This appointment was made in an effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party “in check”; however, it would have disastrous results . -
Works Progress Administration created
n his inaugural address on March 4, 1933, Roosevelt promised Americans that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” and outlined his New Deal–an expansion of the federal government as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare. -
Social Security Act Passed
he Social Security Act was enacted August 14, 1935. The Act was drafted during 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
The German invasion of Poland was a prime on how Hitler could wage war and what would be known as the “blitzkrieg” strategy. -
FDR elected to second presidential term
The election was also momentous because Roosevelt was seriously ill, and he and his aides orchestrated a cover-up that hid his failing health from the American people. -
FDR elected to third presidential term
The president received some criticism for running again because there was an unwritten rule in American politics that no U.S. president should serve more than two terms. -
The London Blitz
A night-time raid that ended terribly and deadly. Night after night, for two months. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
the Japanese launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. After just two hours of bombing, more than 2,400 Americans were dead, 21 ships* had either been sunk or damaged, and more than 188 U.S. aircraft destroyed. -
Executive Order 9066
Resulting in the Relocation of Japanese... -
Battle of Midway Island
naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots. -
D-Day
The battle of Normandy, which lasted from June to August, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe. Codenamed Operation Overlord, known as D-Day. -
Battle of the Bulge
with the onset of winter, the German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor. The battle that ensued is known historically as The Battle of the Bulge. -
FDR elected to fourth presidential term
FDR remains the only president to have served more than two terms. The last term served by Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
FDR dies
"Suddenly, he grabbed his head complaining of a sharp pain. The president was suffering a massive cerebral hemorrhage that would end his life in minutes. America's longest serving president who had led the nation through the Great Depression and World War II was dead." -
Auschwitz liberated by Allied Forces
As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners. These prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease. -
V-E Day
VE Day officially announced the end of World War Two in Europe. -
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 uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki on August 9. -
V-J Day
On August 14, 1945, it was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as “Victoryover Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.”
