United States Timeline: The Great Depression

United States Timeline: The Great Depression

Period: Jan 1, 1940 to Dec 31, 1949

U.S. Congress reintroduces the draft

Sep 14, 1940

U.S. Congress reintroduces the first peacetime conscription draft in anticapation of a possible American involvement in WWll.

Franklin D. Roosevelt in elected to his third therm as President of the United States.

Nov 5, 1940

Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for his third term which was a major issue. America felt that a change in the president dureing the great depression would be a mistake.

Lend-Lease Act

Mar 11, 1941

The lend-lease stopped tradeing between U.K., Soviet Union, China, Free france, and other allied nations ended americas nueturality.

RKO Pictures releases Citizen Kane

Apr 4, 1941

American drama film that won adademy awards in 9 catagories.

Manhattan Project Begins

Jul 23, 1941

Was a research and development program by the U.S., U.K., and Canada that produced the first A-Bomb.

Mount Rushmore is completed

Oct 31, 1941

4 of the counties greatest Presidents are choosen to go on the side of Mount Rushmore.

Japanese Attack on Peral Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Japanese launch a suprise attack on Pearl Harbor for planning to stop the Imperial Japanese Navy.

Executive order 9066 is signed ordering Japanese Americans to be held in relocation camps

Feb 19, 1942

Authorizing the Secratery of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones to relocate Japanese Americans.

Battle of Midway

Jun 4, 1942

Japs saught to elimanate the U.S. as a strategic power in the Pacific.

Detroit, Michigan Race Riots

Jun 20, 1943

Fights that broke out between african americans and whites.

D-Day (operation Over-Lord

Jun 6, 1944

Battle fought on the beaches of normandy. Over 9000 troops died on doomsday, the surviveing killed hitler later.

G.I. Bill of Rights signed into law

Jun 22, 1944

Served to change the social and economic lanscape of the united states.

Harry S. Truman becomes President

Apr 12, 1945

Under Truman, the U.S succesfully concluded world war II

Germany Surrenders

May 7, 1945

ended the european conflict of WWII

Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

Aug 6, 1945

First dropped Atomic bomb, Japan surrenders

First of meeting of the United Nations General Assembly

Jan 10, 1946

one of the six principal organs of the united states

National Basketball Association of America is founded

Jun 6, 1946

Men's professional league in North America

Jackie Robinson debuts at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers

Apr 15, 1947

First African to play a major league game, Jackie Robinson did great on first base at his debut

Marshall Plan

Jun 5, 1947

An act to help restore Europes economy

President Truman is re-elected

Nov 2, 1948

Truman was expected to lose but comes from behind and wins the election.

NATO is formed

Apr 4, 1949

NATO is a partnership for peace between countries.