Unit 14 Timeline

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  • Election of 1932

    Election of 1932
    On November 8, 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt defeats Herbert C. Hoover for presidency. He won with 57% of the popular vote and 89% of the electoral vote. FDR has left a huge impact on the United States. 1932 was the beginning of 4 presidential terms, roughly 12 years before he died on April 12,1945.

  • Hundred Days Congress

    Hundred Days Congress
    During FDR's first 100 days in office, the FDR Administration passed 15 separate and major bills through Congress. Roosevelt promised the American people a New Deal and he was delivering. He proposed bills that were targeted towards Reform, Relief, and Recovery. Some of these include AAA, TVA, HOLC, NRA, PWA etc.

  • Neutrality Act of 1939

    Neutrality Act of 1939
    Congress during November of 1939 passed the last Neutrality Act. This Act aimed at banning U.S. ships from carrying goods or passengers to belligerent ports (nations at war) but allowed the United States to sell munitions, although on a “cash‐and‐carry” basis. All the Neutrality Acts were repealed by Congress on November 13,1941.

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    Attack on Pearl Harbor
    The Pearl Harbor attack occurred on December 7, 1941. It was a surprise military strike by Japan's Naval Air Service on America's naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. This leads to the U.S. declaring war on Japan and Germany then declaring war on the U.S.

  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066
    The Executive order 9066 was an order signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942 two months after the Pearl Harbor attack. This order forced 100-120 thousand people of Japanese ancestry to relocate to internment camps to the Western inner part of the country. This people mostly came from the Pacific Coast.

  • End of World War II

    End of World War II
    World War II started on September 1, 1939 and ended on September 2, 1945 after 6 years of fighting. A month before the war officially ended on August 6, 1945 the U.S. drooped an atomic bomb on the city of Hiroshima in Japan and another on Nagasaki on August 9th. These nuclear bombs caused roughly 225, 000 deaths. Germany surrendered on May 7, 1945 and Japan surrendered on September 2, 1945.