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The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Caused the Great Depression. -
Reparation Postponement for Germany
The allies allowed Germany a few months to pay back reparations due to near bankruptcy. -
New Yorks' Bank of The US Collapses
At the time of the collapse, the bank had over $200 million in deposits, making it the largest single bank failure in the nation's history. -
11,000 Banks Out of 25,000 Closed
Due to people taking all thier money out of the banks, many banks had to be shut down. -
Three Thousand Unemployed Workers March On the Ford Motor Company's Plant in River Rouge, Michigan.
Dearborn police and Ford's company guards attack the workers, killing four and injuring many more. -
Hitler Comes to Power.
Lead to WW2 and the Holocaust. -
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–1937) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt. -
21st Amendment
Overturned the 18th amendment, ending the prohibition. -
Longshoremen Strike
A West Coast longshoremen's strike, conducted with significant aid from the Communist Party, paralyzes shipping and trade in California, Oregon, and Washington. The strike ends with a victory for the longshoremen's union with cooperation between the longshoremen and West Coast Communists representing the first successful venture of the so-called "Popular Front" between Communists and liberals. -
Huey Long Assassinated
Huey Long is assassinated inside the Louisiana Capitol Building. -
Nazi Rally in New York City
The German-American Bund stages a huge rally of fascist sympathizers supporting what they call "True Americanism" in Madison Square Garden in New York. Anti-Semitic Hitler admirer and Bund leader Fritz Kuhn calls Franklin Roosevelt "Frank Rosenfeld," and the New Deal "The Jew Deal." -
Roosevelt is Elected President
Roosevelt was elected for his third term.
