Depression and WWII, Section 3

By khoke

  • Stock Market Crash

    The stock market crash is considered the start of the Great Depression

  • ECU- Hoover

    Emergency Committee on Unemployment is Hoover's plan to help Americans. This failed.

  • Japan invades Manchuria

    Japan looks to expand in order to gain lost resources from the depression

  • AAA

    Agricultural Adjustment Administration- Helped Farmers make money.

  • Ford Strike

    3,000 unemployemed workers march on a Ford plant

  • 1932 Election

    FDR is elected president

  • Hitler

    Hitler becomes leader of Germany

  • CCC

    Civilian Conservation Corps- Gave blue collar jobs

  • 4 Day bank Holiday

    FDR announces banks will close which allows banks a chance to organize

  • Dust Bowl

    Overfarmed fields caused dirt to blacken the skies leading to deaths and lack of production in the Great Plains.

  • Nurembourg Laws

    Took away Jewish civil rights

  • SSA

    The Social Security Act, part of the New Deal, provides welfare to the elderly.

  • Good neightgbor Policy

    FDR's policy creates alliances with neighroing countries in the face of Asian and European expansion

  • Berlin Axis Agreement

    Alliance between Germany and Italy

  • Kristallnacht

    The night of Broken Glass- Jews were abused and their property was destroyed

  • Molotov- Ribbentrop pact

    Alliance between germany Soviets

  • Germany Invades Poland

    This event is considered the start of WWII

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacks Pearl harbor; America declares war on Japan