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Black Tuesday 1929
Black Tuesday is the nickname of the wall street crach in 1929. This is the worst stock market crash is history. it was also the longest lasting economic turndown. -
The dust bowl
The dust bowl is the nickname for the drought during the 1930s. this drought drove 60 percent of the population from the region. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term. He was the thirty second president and was in office from 1933-1945. He was known for helping people regain faith in themselves. FDR beat hoover, dewey, landon, and willkie. -
Roosevelt’s Hundred Days
The hundred days was known by roosevelt to put an end to the great depression. His main four priorities were to get Americans back to work, protect their savings and create prosperity, provide relief for the sick and elderly, and get industry and Agriculture back on their feet. -
Roosevelts Bank Holiday
President Franklin Roosevelt set out to rebuild confidence in the nation's banking system, first declaring a four-day banking holiday that shut down the banking system, including the Federal Reserve. -
Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor
On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany. -
Tennessee Valley Authority founded
A corporation created in the United States to provide navigation, flood control, electricity, generation, fertilizer, just to name a few. -
Social Security
In addition to several provisions for general welfare, the new Social Sucrity Act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement. -
WPA
The WPA was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskilled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads. -
FDR elected to second presidential term
FDR beat Alf landon from the republican party to be elected president in 1936. This is his second term. -
Adolf Hitler invades Poland
this was Hitlers first major foreign policy after becoming leader. germany did not agress with hitler on this move. -
FDR elected to third presidential term
FDR would be re elected for the third term. FDR would beat Wendell Willkie from the republican party to win and become president. -
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The London Blitz
A period of intense bombing of London and other cities that continued until the following May. For the next consecutive 57 days, London was bombed either during the day or night. -
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. -
Executive Order 9066
United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones. -
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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. -
FDR elected to fourth presidential term
FDR was elected to his fourth term and would beat Thomas E. Dewey from the republican party to win and become president. -
D-Day
the day in World War II on which Allied forces invaded northern France by means of beach landings in Normandy. -
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. Many of these prisoners had survived forced marches into the interior of Germany from camps in occupied Poland. These prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease. -
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Battle of the Bulge
Hitler would do another bad thing and attempt to try and make the allied front line move from northen france to northwestern belgium. -
FDR dies
FDR would die on April 12, 1945 in springs GA. -
V-E Day
the day marking the Allied victory in Europe -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
The atomic bomb (little boy) was dropped on hiroshima -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki. -
V-J Day
the day in which Japan ceased fighting in World War II, or the day when Japan formally surrendered.
