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Black Tuesday of 1929
America and the rest of the industialized world spiraled downward into the Great Depression. The deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world up to that time. Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as Investros traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidental tem
He undertook immediate actions to initiate his New Deal programs. However, the nation-at-large supported Roosevelt, and exected additional Democrats to state legislatures and governorships in the mid-term elections. -
Roosevelt’s Bank Holiday
Keeping your money in a bank was not a sure way to save. If the bank made unwise investments, the bank could fail and depositors' money would be lost. Thirty-eight states hasd adopted restrictions on withdrawals in an effort to forstall the panic. -
Tennessee Valley Authority founded
Navigation on the Tennessee River was severely hampered by shoals, rapids and the effects of droughts and flooding. -
Adolf Hitler invades Poland
His establishment of concentration camps to inter jews and other groups he belience to be a threat to Aryan supremacy resulted in the death of more than 6 million people in the Holocaust. His attack on Poland in 1939 stated World War II. -
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Dust Bowl
The name Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in the 1930's depression-ridden America. When drought struck from 1934 to 1937, the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor, so the winds easily piced up the loose topsil and swirled it into dense dust clouds, called "black bliards." Recurrent dust storms wreaked havoc, choking cattle and pasture lands and driving 60% of the population from the region. -
Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor
Adolf Hitler, already chancellor, is also elected president of Germany in an unprecedented consolidation of power in the short history of the republic. -
Roosevelt’s Hundred Days
Later became known as the First Hundred Days. Congress followed Roosevelt's lead by passing an incredible fifreen separate bills which, together, formed the basis of the New Deal. -
Social Security Act passed
The Social Security Act established as sytem of old-age benefits for workers, benefits for victims of industrial accidents, unemployment Insurance, aid for defendent mothers and children, the blind, and the physically handicapped. -
FDR elected to second presidential term
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over his Republican challenger, Kansas Governor Alfred M. "Alf" Landon. The president won over 60 percent of the popular vote and 523 of the 531 electoral votes, losing only Maine and Vermont. -
Works Progress Administration
At its peak in 1938, it provided paid jobs for three million unemployed men and women, as well as youth in a separate division. -
FDR elected to third presidential term
The thrid-term decision dominated his election campaign agaisnt the Republican contender, Wendwll Wikie. the the end, Roosevelt won the election by a wide argin, and he was able to win a fourth election in 1944 -
The London Blitz
During the previous two months, the Luftwarffe had targeted RAF airfields and radar stations for destruction in preparation for the German invasion of the island. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
In truth, the United States has been at war for a lond time beofre making these declarations. Its war making took a variety of forms. The U.S/ military actively cooperated with the British military in combat operations against the Germans, for example, by alerting the British navy of aerial or marine sightings of German submarines. -
Battle of Midway Island
The battle of the Coral Sea, the Japanese had continued with plans to seize midway island and bases in the alteutians. Seeking a naval showdown with the numerically inferior U.S. Pacific Fleet, Adm. -
Executive Order 9066
U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs Executive Order 9066, authorizing the removal of any or all people from military areas "as deemed necessary pr desirable." The military in turn defined the entire West Coast, home to the majority of Americans of Japanese ancestry or citizenship, as a military area. -
FDR elected to fourth presidential term
FDR ran for his fourth time and won. -
D-Day
The Allied liberation of Western Europe from Nazi Germany's control. Codenamed Operation Overlord, the battle began on June 6, 1944 -
Battle of the Bulge
The German army launched a counteroffensice that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor. -
FDR dies
Passed away after four momntous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in charge of a country still fighting the Second World War and in posession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power.