Great Depression

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff

    Import taxes are raised to protect America manufactures from foreign competition.
  • Major Bank Collapse

    New York's Bank of the US collapses in the largets bank failure to date.
  • Roosevelt Election

    FDR was elected President.
  • Roosevelt Inauguration

    FDR is inagurated into Presidency.
  • Longshoremen Strike

    Halted shipping and trade in Oregon, California, and Washington.
  • Huey Long Assassinated

    That guy was killed.
  • FDR Reelected

    FDR was reelected.