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Stock Market
October, 1929, the Stock Market crashed. Fortunes of investors around the world are destroyed. President Herbert Hoover, an Iowa native, was eventually blamed for the plight of America. People who were homeless and unemployed lived in shanty towns they called “Hoovervilles.” -
Start of Roosevelt
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a democrat from New York, defeats Hoover for presidency. In hopes of helping agriculture, President Roosevelt launched the New Deal including dozens of federal programs just in his first 100 days of office. A call for social security, a more fair tax system and a host of federal jobs programs to get people back to work, was made by FDR. -
Time of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was declared chancellor of Germany. Germany, Italy, and Japan withdrew from the League of Nations. -
Ethiopia
Ethiopia was invaded by the Italian prime minister and dictator Benito Mussolini. -
The Berlin Olympics
The Olympics in Berlin, Jesse Owens, a black Alabama native educated at Ohio State University, broke the Olympic and World records by winning four gold medals. German dictator, Adolf Hitler refused to recognize the Americans achievements. Hilter had declared that the superior German Aryan race could dominate the games, but he was wrong. -
King Edward VIII
King Edward VIII of England gave up his throne so that he may marry Wallace W. Simpson, “the women I love.” Since Wallace was an American and a divorcee she couldn’t become Queen of England. -
Japan vs. China
Japan moves in on China. -
Austria
Hitler marches into Austria. -
All of Europe War
Poland is invaded by Germany and Great Britain declares war on Germany. Thus beginning war on all of Europe. The U.S. enters the war in Dec., 1941, although FDR was supplying Britain and the allies with guns and material before that date. -
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World War II Began
Nations were organized into two opposing military alliances, Allies and the Axis. This was the most widespread war in history, with more than 100 million military personnel mobilized. -
Battle of Britain
Great Britain was Germany’s last enemy that was left. Germany made an attempt to take Britain by bombing and taking over their airspace. The bombings continued, but by October it was made clear that the British had won giving Germany their first defeat of WWII. -
The attack on Pearl Harbor
Japan attacked the U.S. Pacific Fleet to prevent its influence on the war that the Empire of Japan was planning in Southeast Asia. This war was to be against Britain and the Netherlands, as well as the U.S. and the Philippians. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
The Jews desire of not wanting to be taken to the Treblinka extermination camp caused the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. This was the largest single revolt against the Germans. -
Death of Franklin Delano Roosevelt
Declared more than two presidential terms. Died in the office of a cerebral hemorrhage shortly before WWII ended. -
Germany Surrenders
The German Instrument of Surrender was signed by representatives of the Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, the Allied Expeditionary Force and Soviet High Command on May 7 and formally ratified on May 8, 1945. The date is known in the West as Victory in Europe Day. -
U.S. Drops Atomic Bombs on Japan
In the cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki the U.S. conducted two atomic bombings against Japan during the final stages of WWII. -
The Death of Hitler
Mr. and Mrs. Hitler committed suicide by he who shot himself in the head and she who drank poison, while hiding from the Soviet. -
United Nations
United Nations was founded. To replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue the UN was founded after WWII. -
Approval of Hydrogen of Bomb Construction
President Truman approves the Hydrogen bomb construction. US. President Harry S. Truman ordered the building of the hydrogen bomb. -
Beginning of Korean War
June 25th, the Korean War began with the invasion of South Korea. -
Death of King George VI
Britain's Princess Elizabeth took over the responsibility of ruling England at age 25 after the death of her father, King George VI. -
Death of Joseph Stalin
Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin died of a cerebral hemorrhage on March 5 in Kuznets Dacha -
Launch of the First Atomic Submarine
The first atomic submarine was launched in the Thames River in Connecticut, the U.S.S. Nautilus. -
Racial Segregation
Racial segregation ruled unconstitutional in public schools. -
The Re-election of Winston Churchill
In October, Winston Churchill took the reins in Great Britain as prime minister for the first time after the close of World War II. -
Signing of Warsaw Pact
The Warsaw Pact was created in reaction to the integration of West Germany into NATO in 1955 per the London and Paris Conferences of 1954. The Warsaw Pact was established as a balance of power to NATO. -
Start of the Vietnam War
In general, historians have identified several different causes of the Vietnam War, including: the spread of communism during the Cold War, American containment, and European imperialism in Vietnam. -
Fidel Castro
leader of the Cuban Revolution, became the dictator of Cuba and brought communism to the Caribbean country.