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The stock market crashes
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Period of large number of unemployed people and the involvement of the government to help fix social and economic issues
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FDR is president of the U.S.
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FDR closes all the nation's banks for four day.
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Roosevelt is able to get Congress to pass various of his New Deal programs during this session.
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FDR gives the first Fireside Chat in which he addresses the closure of the nation's banks.
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This organization provided work for 250,000 young men between the ages 18 and 25 in reforestation, road construction, and the creation of national parks
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Authorization to build dams and power plants along the Tennessee Valley, therefore providing electricity to residents whom did not have any.
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Congress passes the National Industrial Recovery Act, Public Works Administration, and the National recovery Administration.
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Provides work for four million unemplyed over the winter.
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Repeals the 18th Amendment (prohibition of alcoholic beverages)
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Government control over the fluctuations in the value of the dollar.
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FDR is inaugurated for his second term
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Allows Supreme Court Justices to retire at 70 with full pay
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Germany invades Poland
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Japan bombs American fleet in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
