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World War ends
World War 1 ends -
Herbert Hoover is elected
Hoover held a press conference promising a new phase of press-relations. -
Black Tuesday
The crash signaled the beginning of the 10 year great depression that affected all western industrilalized countries. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
To regulate commerce with forigen countries. -
Unemployment hits 25%
Unemployment rose up to 25% in the U.S. and up to 30% in other countries. -
First Bank Panic
This lead to a servire decline in the money supply during the period of declining economic activity. -
Hawley Smoot Tariff
An Act to Provide revenue, to regulate commerce with foreign countries. -
1930 Midterms
United States Senate elections of 1930 occured in the middle of Republican President Herbert Hoover's first term. -
Food Riot of 1931
"Food Riots" began to break out in parts of the U.S. Seven people were arrested. -
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First Hundred days
During the hundred days 15 seperate bills were formed together to create the baisis of the new deal. -
Second Bank Panic
The nonmember banks opperated in an environment similar that which exsited before the federal reserve was established in 1914. -
Tennessee Valley Authority
Provided flood control, electricity generation, and economic developement in the Tennessee valley. -
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New Deal
The New Deal was a series of domestic programs. -
FDR is elected
He was elected four consecutive terms. -
Emergency Banking Act
Passed in attempt to stabilize the economy because of the great depression. -
Second New Deal
It improved the use of natural resources, unemployment and illness and a new national wellfair program -
Judicial Procedures Reform Bill of 1937
Roosevelts purpose was to uptain favorable rulilngs regaurding the new deal legislation that the court had ruled unconstitutional. -
United States enters WW2
The U.S. military was sent to replace the British invasion forces and Iceland.