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Black Tuesday
Investors 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 on Wall Street. -
Fdr
FDR was the 32nd Presdient of The United States. He deafted Hoover in the presidentail election in 1932. -
100 Days
He passed 15 bills in the first 100 days as presdeidnt and changed Americas economics for ever. -
Adolf Hilter Vecomes German CHancellor
In this Year he became very powerful. His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state. -
A Bank Holiday
Roosevelt declared a "bank holiday" From March 6 to March 10, banking transactions were suspended across the nation except for making change. -
Tennessee Valley Authority founded
The Tennessee Valley Authority is the nation's largest public power provider and a corporation of the U.S. government -
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The Dust Bowl
Over 150,000 thousand square miles had ittle rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a potentially destructive combination. -
Works Progress Administration created
the WPA was established under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, as a means of creating government jobs for some of the nation’s many unemployed. -
Social Security Act passed
The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. In addition to several provisions for general welfare, the new Act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement -
Adolf Hitler invades Poland
The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack. -
FDR third election
Roosevelt was elected to a third term with the promise of maintaining American neutrality.president fought for passage of the Lend-Lease Act in Congress, in March 1941, which would commit financial aid to Great Britain and other allies -
The London Blitz
Hitler's attempt to subdue Great Britain. During the previous two months, German prepared to take the island. -
Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
Order 9066
The order authorized transporting these citizens to assembly centers hastily set up and governed by the military. -
Battle of Midway Island
World War II, 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
More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen. -
FDR elected to his fourth presidential term
When FDR was elected to his fourth term, his health began to decline. On the bright side the Allies began to take control in WWII. -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe.Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne. -
Auschwitz liberation
Only about 6,000 jewish inmates were liberated on this date. -
FDR dies
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was pronounced dead in Warm Springs, Georgia due to cerebral hemorrhage.
