The Great Depression and World War II

  • Black Tuesday

    Black Tuesday
    STOCK MARKET CRASH!!! It was the most darkest times for the United States.
  • The Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl
    The Dust Bowl lasted about a decade. The main parts it affected was the southern plains. Drought and agricultural destruction affected the southern plains mostly and some of the northern plains.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term

    Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term
    In 1932 the election happened during the Great Depression.
  • Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor
    Adolf Hitler named German Chancellor
  • Roosevelt's Hundred Days

    Roosevelt's Hundred Days
    Roosevelt had four main priorities: to get Americans back to work, protect their savings and create prosperity, provide relief for the sick and elderly, and get industry and agriculture back on its feet.
  • Roosevelt's Bank holiday

    Roosevelt's Bank holiday
    Depositors had a really good chance of losing their money they put into the bank.
  • Tennessee Valley Authority founded

    Tennessee Valley Authority founded
    TVA is America's largest public power provider of the government.
  • WPA created

    WPA created
    Works Projects Administration was created in 1935 over the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act.
  • Social Security Act passed

    Social Security Act passed
    The act was signed into a law by President Roosevelt. It also insured that people 65 years or older still got income after retirement.
  • FDR elected to second presidential term

    FDR elected to second presidential term
    President Roosevelt was re-elected for a second term in a landslind over his opponent, Alfred Landon.
  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland

    Adolf Hitler invades Poland
    One of Hitler's first acts as Chancellor of Germany
  • London Blitz

    London Blitz
    The appearance of German bombers in the skies over London during the afternoon of September 7, 1940 forwarded in Hitler's attempt to capture Great Britain.
  • Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
    Japan decided to come and attack us on Pearl Harbon in 1941.
  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066
    A United States presidential order issued and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • Battle of Midway Island

    Battle of Midway Island
    The United States Navy defeated an attacking fleet of imperial japanese navy.
  • D-Day

    D-Day
    On this day more than 160,000 allied forces landed on the beaches of Normandy, Germany.
  • Auschwitz liberated by allied forces

    Auschwitz liberated by allied forces
    As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners.
  • FDR elected to third presidential term

    FDR elected to third presidential term
    Franklin Roosevelt elected a third term in 1944 defeating Thomas Dewey.
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge
    A German campaign launched in Belgium, France.
  • FDR elected fourth term

    FDR elected fourth term
    Roosevelt is first president to be elected four terms as President of The Untied States.
  • FDR dies

    FDR dies
    FDR died in 1945 in Warm Springs, Georgia
  • VE Day

    VE Day
    Was a celebrated holiday
  • A Bomb on Hiroshima

    A Bomb on Hiroshima
    Allied Forces dropped Atomic bomb on the island of Hiroshima
  • Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki

    Atomic Bomb on Nagasaki
    Allied forces dropped atomic bomb on Nagasaki along with Hiroshima.
  • VJ Day

    VJ Day
    Victory over Japan!