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Black Tuesday of 1929
Where people were in a panic and sold or traded about 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange. It is referred to as the start of Black Tuesday. -
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The Dust Bowl
It was the name they gave the Great Plains when it was under devastation during the era of the depression in America. Basically it was a drought on the Great Plains -
Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor
He became German Chancellor. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term
Roosevelt was first eleceted to be president. -
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Roosevelt’s Bank Holiday
Two days after being in office he suspended bank transactions across the Nation. -
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Roosevelt’s Hundred Days
Congress followed Roosevelt around as he passed 15 different bills in 100 days of being in office. -
Tennessee Valley Authority founded
A federal owned corperation United States. -
Works Progress Administration created
An employer that employeed millions of unemployed people, it was the lasrgest New Deal agency. -
Social Security Act passed
A social insurance program to pay retired workers 65 years or older passed by Roosevelt. -
FDR elected to second presidential term
President Roosevelt was re-elected for the 2nd time. -
Adolf Hitler invades Poland
Hitler invaded Poland as his first act as Chancellor becuase he wanted to take over. -
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Auschwitz liberated by Allied Forces
Largest of deaths in the Nazi, it was located in Poland. It was a camp were the Jewish enemies were palced by the Nazis -
FDR elected to third presidential term
He served his 3rd time as president of the United States -
The London Blitz
German bombers in the sky above London. -
Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor
Japenese planes attacked the Naval base at Pearl Harbor -
Executive Order 9066
General Records of the Unites States. -
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Battle of Midway Island
United States Navy was under attack by the Japenese Navy -
D-Day
The Normandy landings. It was an invasion of Normandy -
FDR elected to fourth presidential term
Was elected as President for the 4th time, -
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Battle of the Bulge
It was a German campaighn. -
V-E Day
It was a Holiday to celebrate the end of Hitlers war. -
FDR dies
Had a hemhorrage on his head that caused him to die after serving 4 terms as President. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
A B-29 bomber dropped the first ever atomic bomb over Hiroshima -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
The second atomic bomb to ever be dropped was dropped of the city of Nagasaki. -
V-J Day
A day they celebrated becuase of Japan's surrender that ended the WWII.
