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Black Tuesday of 1929
Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as 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. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt
By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days,' he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the enemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority. -
Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancllor
On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fUhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
Roosevelt's Bank Holiday
Issued Proclamation 2039 ordering the suspension of all banking transactions, effective immediately. He had taken the oath of office only thirty-six hours earlier. -
Tennessee Valley Authority founded
Creating the TVA as a Federal corporation. The new agency was asked to tackle important problems facing the valley, such as flooding, providing electricity to homes and businesses, and replanting forests. -
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Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. The 150,000-square-mile area, encompassing the Oklahoma and Texas. -
Social Securtiy Act passed
To provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemplyment. -
Roosevelt's Hundred Days
Congress followed Roosevelts's lead by passing an incredible fifteen spearate bills whihc, together, formaed the basis of the New Deal. Several of the programs created during those three and a half months are still around in the federal government today. -
Works Progress Administration created
Was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskiled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. -
FDR elected to third presidential term
On this day in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America's 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedentedthird term. -
The London Blitz
The appearance of German bombers in the skies over London during afternoon of September 7, 1940 heralded a tactical shift in Hitler's attempt of subdue Great Britain. -
FDR elected to second Presidential Term
Roosevelt was elected to a third term with the promise of maintaing American neutrality as far as foreign wars were concerned: "Let no man or woman thoughtlessly or falsely talk of American people sending its armies to European fields." -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. Arizona and capsized the U.S.S. Oklahoma. -
Exevutive Order 9066
Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland. -
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 -
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. -
FDR elected to fourth presidential term
On this day in 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office. FDR remains the only president to have served more than two terms. -
Battle of the Bulge
Adolph Hitler attempted to split the allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. -
V-E Day
Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) was on May 8th, 1945. VE Day officially announced the end of World War Two in Europe. -
FDR dies
On this day in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in chrage of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power. -
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. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender. -
V-J Day
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.'
