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Black Tuesday
On Black Tuesday the stock market crashed. It started the Great Depression. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt First Election
F.D.R beats Herbert Hoover in the presidential election. -
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Roosevelt's Hundred Days
Congress passed 15 separate bills that formed the basis of the New Deal. -
Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor
President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler the Chancellor of Germany. -
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Roosevelt's Bank Holiday
Banking transactions were suspended across the nation except for making change. Roosevelt, during this period, presented the Emergency Banking Act. -
Works Progress Administration created
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) put unemployed Americans to work in return for temporary financial assistance. In 1935, 3 million jobless men were helped by the WPA. -
Tennessee Valley Authority founded
The Tennessee Valley Authority Act was one of the acts passed during Roosevelts first 100 days in office. The Tennessee Valley Authority pledged to improve navigability on the Tennessee River, as well as provide flood control, reforest and improve marginal farm land, assist in industrial and agricultural development, and assist in the creation of a government nitrate and phosphorus manufacturing facility. -
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The Dust Bowl
It was a drought that hit the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas. The topsoil lacked root systems like grass to hold down the topsoil. When the wind blew it caused what was called "Black Blizzards". -
Social Security Act passed
It generated more programs to help numerous groups of Americans. -
FDR elected to second presidential term
FDR beats Alfred M. Landon in the presidential election. -
Germany invades Poland
Germany forces attack Poland on land and in air. It was the begining of World War II. -
The London Blitz
300 German bombers begin bombing London. The lightening war lasted until May of 1941. -
FDR elected to third presidential term
FDR beat Thomas Dewey in the presidential election. -
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Hundreds of Japanese planes attack the American naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii. -
Executive Order 9066
It was an order to try to provent sabotage from the Japanese Americans. The order also affected German and Italian Americans. -
Battle of Midway Island
American forces battle Japanese forces at Midway Island. -
D-Day
American, British, and Canadian troops landed on 5 beaches along a 50 mile stretch of the coast of Normandy. -
FDR elected into fourth presidential term
FDR won his fourth election. -
Battle of the Bulge
It was the German's last attempt in the war. This battle took place in Belgium. -
Liberation of Auschwitz
Allied forces liberate the people who were left inside Auschwitz. -
FDR dies
FDR passes away and Harry S. Trumann becomes president. -
V-E Day
The United States, Britain, and other western European countries celebrate the victory over Germany. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima
America drops an atomic bomb (Little Boy) on Japan. -
Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki
America drops another atomic bomb (Fat Man) on Japan. -
V-J Day
It was Victory over Japan Day. It was both August 14th and 15th. Japan had surrendered after the second atomic bomb.
