Depression And WWII Timeline

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    Depression

  • Black Tuesday of 1929

    Black Tuesday of 1929
    it was when the prices of stock had completely collapsed. it was because of this day that the Roaring Twenties came to a stumbling halt and, in its place, was the Great Depression.
  • The Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl
    the Dirty Thirties was a time of severe dust storms that damaged the economy. It was a severe drought and a failure phenomenon.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term

    Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term
    1932, he beat the Hoover administration
  • Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor

    1933 was appointed as the chancellor of Germany by President Paul Von Hindenburg. This appointment was made in effort to keep Hitler and the Nazi Party “in check,” which resulted disastrously.
  • Roosevelts Hundred Days

    Roosevelts Hundred Days
    In Roosevelt’s first hundred days in office, he pushed 15 major bills through Congress.
  • Roosevelts Bank Holidays

    Roosevelts Bank Holidays
    The terms of the presidential proclamation specified that “no such banking institution or branch shall pay out, export, earmark, or permit the withdrawal or transfer in any manner or by any device whatsoever, of any gold or silver coin or bullion or currency or take any other action which might facilitate the hoarding thereof; nor shall any such banking institution or branch pay out deposits, make loans or discounts, deal in foreign exchange, transfer credits from the United States to any place
  • Tennessee Valley Authority Founded

    Tennessee Valley Authority Founded
    TVA was established by Congress in 1933 to address a wide range of environmental, economic, and technological issues, including the delivery of low-cost electricity and the management of natural resources.
  • works progressed Administration Created

    his inaugural address on March 4, 1933, Roosevelt promised Americans that “the only thing we have to fear is fear itself” and outlined his New Deal–an expansion of the federal government as an instrument of employment opportunity and welfare.
  • Social Security Act Passed

    Social Security Act Passed
    The Social Security Act was enacted August 14, 1935. The Act was drafted during President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s first term by the President’s Committee.
  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland

    The German invasion of Poland was a prime on how Hitler could wage war and what would be known as the “blitzkrieg” strategy.
  • The London Blitz

    A night-time raid that ended terribly and deadly. Night after night, for two months.
  • FDR elected to second presidential term

    The election was also momentous because Roosevelt was seriously ill, and he and his aides orchestrated a cover-up that hid his failing health from the American people.
  • FDR elected to third presidential term

    The president received some criticism for running again because there was an unwritten rule in American politics that no U.S. president should serve more than two terms.
  • 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. These prisoners were suffering from starvation and disease.
  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    the Japanese launched a surprise air attack on the U.S. Naval Base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii. After just two hours of bombing, more than 2,400 Americans were dead, 21 ships* had either been sunk or damaged, and more than 188 U.S. aircraft destroyed.
  • Executive Order 9066

    Resulted in the relocation of Japanese.
  • Battle of Midway Island

    A 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

    the last term served by Franklin D Roosevelt. FDR remains the only president to have served more than two terms.
  • D-Day

    The battle of Normandy, which lasted from June to August, resulted in the Allied liberation of Western Europe. Codenamed Operation Overlord, known as D-Day.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    with the onset of winter, the German army launched a counteroffensive that was intended to cut through the Allied forces in a manner that would turn the tide of the war in Hitler's favor. The battle that ensued is known historically as The Battle of the Bulge.
  • FDR dies

    1945, “Suddenly, he grabbed his head complaining of a sharp pain. The president was suffering a massive cerebral hemorrhage that would end his life in minutes. America's longest serving president who had led the nation through the Great Depression and World War II was dead.”
  • V-E Day

    VE Day officially announced the end of World War Two in Europe.
  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

    The United States becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weapons during wartime when it dropped an atomic bomb on Japanese of Hiroshima.
  • Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki-

    A uranium gun-type atomic bomb (Little Boy) was dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945, followed by a plutonium implosion-type bomb (Fat Man) on the city of Nagasaki on August 9.
  • V-J Day

    On August 14, 1945, 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 “Victory over Japan Day,” or simply “V-J Day.”