The Great Depression

  • the stock market crashes

    the stock market crashes
    also known as black tuesday. Was the most devistating crash in history
  • The beginning of Hoovervilles

    The beginning of Hoovervilles
    Hoovervilles begin to crop up across the nation through the 1930 A Hooverville was the popular name for a shanty town, examples of which were found in many United States communities during the Great Depression of the 1930s.
  • US officially gets national anthem

    US officially gets national anthem
    a song that praises a particular country and that is officially accepted as the country's song
  • major bank collapse

    major bank collapse
    new yorks bank of u.s collapses in the largest bank fauiler to date in america
  • Roosevelt

    Roosevelt
    roosevelt is elected president
  • Roosevelts inaugeration

    Roosevelts inaugeration
    Roosevelt is inaugurated into office as 32nd President of the United States.
  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl
    More and more dust storms had been blowing up in the years leading up to that day.
  • Neutrality Act passed

    Neutrality Act passed
    Congress passed three separate neutrality laws that clamped an embargo on arms sales to belligerents, forbade American ships from entering war zones and prohibited them from being armed, and barred Americans from traveling on belligerent ships
  • Huey Long

    Huey Long
    huey long is assassinated inside the Louisiana Capitol Building.
  • The Hindenberg Disaster

    The Hindenberg Disaster
    the German passenger airship LZ 129 Hindenburg caught fire and was destroyed during its attempt to dock
  • WWII begins

    WWII begins
    when Germany invaded Poland, which led Britain and France to declare war on Hitler's Nazi state in retaliation.
  • Germany invades Poland

    Germany invades Poland
    The Invasion of Poland, also known as the September Campaign, or the 1939 Defensive War in Poland, and alternatively the Poland Campaign or Fall Weiss in Germany.The German invasion of Poland was a primer on how Hitler intended to wage war–what would become the “blitzkrieg” strategy.
  • Britain

    Britain
    Britain's 1st WW II rationing bacon, butter,and sugar