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Black tuesday
Traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day which ended up having billions of dollars lost taking out thousands of investors. -
Roosevelt’s Hundred Days
He has proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to the business and agriculture. -
Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor
On this day in 1933 President Paul von Hindenburg has named Adolf Hitler, leader of chancellor of Germany -
Roosevelt’s Bank Holiday
from the days of March 6-10 banking transactions were suspended across the nation except for making change. During this period he presented the ne Congress with the Emergency Banking Act -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term
Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected his first presidential term in 1933. He helped the American people that had little or no faith gain faith in themselves as he promised hope he brought it. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself" -
Tennessee Valley Authority founded
Tennessee Valley Authority was founded -
The Dust Bowl
When the drought first struck in 1934 the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor. The wind was easily able to pick up and take the top layer of soild with it and swirled it into dense dust clouds some eople called black blizzards. It wreaked havoc, choked the cattle that was caught in its path and frove 60% of the population from the located area -
Works Progress Administration created
Works Progress Administration was founded -
Social Security Act passed
The Solcial Security Act was drafted during FDR's first term by the President's committee -
FDR elected to second presidential term
He was re-elected by a top-heavy margin. Feeling that he was armed with a poular mandate he looked for legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court Which had been invalidating key New Deal measures. -
Adolf Hitler Invades Poland
This is the first country that he invaded and it struck other countries attention -
The London Blitz
Hitler sent an attack on to subde Great Britan -
FDR elected to third presidential term
Roosevelt wasa elected to a third term -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
The japenses bombed American Property which took them to war -
Executive Order 9066
Order the Japanese to the camps -
Battle of Midway Island
WWII naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft -
Battle of the Bulge
hitler attempted to split the allied armies in the northwest -
FDR elected to fourth presidential term
he is the only president that has served more than 2 terms -
D-Day
American troops invaded normady to push troops out of france -
Auschwitz liberated by Allied Forces
they were the first to apporch a major Nazi camp, reaching Majdanek near lublin, Polan in july -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The unitded 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 -
FDR dies
FDR dies on April 12, 1945 -
V-E Day
was offically anoounced the end of WWII in Europe -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
A uranium gun type atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima followed by a plutonium implosion type bomb on the city of Nagasaki -
V-J Day
Japan unconditionally surrendered to the allies
