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1929-1949
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In this year, President Hoover was elected President of the United States.
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Sound arrived in American Hollywood movies in this year.
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Between 1929 and 1932, about 110,000 American businesses closed down
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The Wall Street crash happened
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In this year, a rally of unemployed Americans workers and under-paid employed workers rioted in New York.
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During Hoover's Presidency, government passed the Hawley-Smoot Act
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The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was set up by the Hoover administration.
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During Hoover's Presidency, the American government provided $423 million for a building program
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14 million Americans unemployed by this point
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An American magazine called New Republic published an article that said how in 1932, 100 Americans a day were eating out of garbage dumps to service.
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According to The Lean Years, by 1932, organised looting of food was a nationwide phenomenon.
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According to an article in the New York Post, there was a family in Georgia with a six-year-old boy who had no food for three days in a row.
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In this year, the Bonus March took place.
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In this year, President Hoover fought against Roosevelt to try and get re-elected.
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In this year, the Democrats published a cartoon that mocked Hoover's failure to deal with effects of the Depression.
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In this year, Roosevelt shook hands with a miner in West Virginia.
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From 1933-1934, four million Americans were given jobs by the CWA
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American farmers' incomes doubled in these six years 1933-1939
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In these years, nearly 3 million Americans were given jobs by the CCC 1933-1942
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From 1933-1934, four million Americans were given jobs by the CWA.
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A cartoon was published titled 'Priming the Pump' that criticized the success of FDR's New Deal.
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A woman, Francis Perkins, became the first woman to reach such a high level in American politics 1933-1935
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FDR made his inaugural speech as President of the United States.
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The famous "100 Days" took place in these four months, during 1933.
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By this year, Huey Long (initially supported the New Deal) started saying the New Deal was not doing enough.
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The Indian Registration Act was passed.
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From 1935 to 1937, the Second New Deal was introduced.The WPA was set up
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The WPA was set up
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The Wagner Act was passed.
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Roosevelt set up the Resettlement Administration
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Huey Long was assassinated by one of his opponents.
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The Supreme Court ruled that the NIRA was unconstitutional
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By 1935, about 30% of Black Americans were living on relief.
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The Social Security Act was passed
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Many Americans living in Oklahoma and Arkansas migrated to California in hope of work and land with food.
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FDR asked Congress to give him the power to appoint six new judges in the Supreme Court.
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Roosevelt faced his second presidential election campaign.
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Roosevelt was re-elected as American's President.
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The Farm Security Administration replaced the Re-Settlement Administration.
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The Supreme Court judged the Wagner Act and the Social Security Act to be constitutional
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The average wage American women received in this year was half that of American men.
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The 'Memorial Day Massacre' took place in Chicago.
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Father Coughlin, (initially praising FDR's New Deal but then changed his mind), lost his audience by 1940.
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The Supreme Court ruled that the NIRA was unconstitutional.
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The 1940 census showed that only 1/20 Black Americans had a desk job, compared with 1/3 white Americans.
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The USA entered WWII
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Unemployment dropped more as a result of WWII than it did as a result of FDR's New Deal
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German forces leave Greece
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The USA & the USSR emerged from WWII as the two superpowers of the world
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In Bulgaria, communists executed the leaders of other parties
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Yalta Conference
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President Roosevelt died
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America elected a new President (President Truman)
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Hitler Defeated
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The USSR is forced to admit that their Berlin Blockade has failed
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Half way through the Potsdam Conference, Winston Churchill learned that he had lost the general election and so was replaced by Clement Attlee
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Potsdam Conference
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In this conference, President Truman threatened Stalin by telling him that America had produced a new weapon of mass destruction
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The USA successfully tests is first atomic bomb
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Stalin disagreed over what to do about Germany
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Stalin disagreed over Soviet policy in Eastern Europe
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Stalin wanted the USSR to have more reparations than what Truman was happy to give him.
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The USA detonates its first atomic bomb in Hiroshima
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Stalin tightened his control over Eastern Europe
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Britain, France and America combined their three zones to make one 'western' zone in Germany
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Communists in Hungary imprisoned opposition leaders
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The non-communist leader of Poland was forced into exile
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Stalin sets up Cominform
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Stalin forbade the communist countries Eastern Europe from accepting Marshall's offer of economic aid.
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President Truman helped the British fight the communists in Greece by giving British troops money to keep fighting.
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The Truman Doctrine is announced to the world
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Marshall Aid is given to Western Europe
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Communists in Czechoslovakia made non-communist parties illegal
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In this year, there were signs that west Germany's economy was recovering as Britain, France and America reformed the currency.
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The USSR blockades Berlin
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America's Berlin Airlift succeeds in ending the USSR's blockade of Berlin
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America sets up NATO
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The communists lost the Greek Civil War to the royalists (supported by Britain and America).
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The USSR sets up the Warsaw Pact
