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The Great Depression
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Black Tuesday - Stock Market Crash
Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market Crash. The plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history. -
Planet Pluto is discovored
Pluto was discovored as a planet (later decided it was not a planet). The fact that another planet was existing out in the universe somewhere exited people. Astronomers were exited about what they could now discover. -
Hawley -Smoot Tariff
Was craeted to regulate trade with foriegn countries, and encourage American industry. It put restrictions on some foriegn trade and cut exports and inports by over half. -
Star - Spangled Banner becomes the national anthem
The Star - Spangled Banner was already used officialy in the Navy. In 1916 Wilson used in as an anthem. But its official proclomation as the natinal anthem aroused natinal pride. -
Empire State Building is completed
It is still one of the tallest buildings in America. The Twin Towers before their demise were taller. It became an American culture icon. -
Lindbergh baby is kidnapped
This was one of the most noticed crimes in the 20th centry. Charles Lindburg the famous aviator had his child taken from him. The child was found dead May 12, 1932. This traumatised his wife beyond repair. She never forgot this, and Charles stopped doing amazing flying feats. They never knew why their child was killed even after they payed the ransome. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President
He starts the new deal to start Deppression Reforms. He proposed that Deficit Spending will take them out of depression. He felt your could spend your way out of depression. -
New Deal
Programs by FDR to help the economy. Part of his plan to pull the country out of The Great Depression. The Second New Deal made many new services such as Social Service. -
Run on the Banks
Banks were dried out of money because people swarmed the banks and took large amounts of money out of the bank. The banks would have to close down out off money loss. 22 states went without banks -
21st Amendment
The Twenty-First Amendment was passed, it repealed, or overwrighted prohabition. Prohabition prohibited the selling or consumption of alcohol, this led to the rise of gangsterism, Alcohol was far to imprtant to many people in America. Becouse of this Gangster ism problem and the quick drop in the economy alcohol manuracture was reinstated. High hopes were set on the amendment helping the economy for the good. -
Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) established
Has the most responsibility in enforcing security laws and acts for things like stock and electronics. -
Social Security Act
Attempted to make a safer more stable life, like payments for unemployed, widows, childeren without fathers, and old agged/retired. -
Hoover Dam completed
It was seen as a huge milestone, a new monument, a light in the darkness of depression. It provided lots of new clean energy, More than enough to feed the energy eating Las Vegas. -
Gone With the Windby Margaret Mitchell published
A now historicly prised novel, was a bestseller in it's day. It's a romance novel set in civil war times. It includes much about life in civil war times. -
Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at Berlin Olympics
Jesse made feats in Berlin during the begining of Nazi Germany, Hitler was at the Olympics so, this win was also a political feat, a slap in the face to Hitler's Olympics. -
FDR re-elected
Roosevelt starts his second term. During his second hundered days he is determined for the success of the Second New Deal -
Hindenburg crashes
Hindenburg was a German passanger airship, though it was a Zeppelin. Helium was the gas used to fill the Zeppelin. The airship caught aflame and the extremily flamible Helium gas fules the flame further beyond control. The Hindenburg began to fall after it caught aflame, the gas that kept it afloat was being devoured by the flame. About 35 died in this incident. -
Amelia Earhart disappears
She was the first woman to cross the atlantic, by flight, solo. She was seen as an idol to many women. She was a symbol of hope for women's rights. The public was verry devistated at her dissaperance and that the mystery remained unsolved. people today are still trying to unearth evidance. The problem is that she was estimated to disapear by crashing into the ocean. Is the evidance miles and miles into the deep blue? -
War of the Worlds Broadcast
A broadcast that was a hoax. It struck fear and people were crazed. It said that a metior had landed in New Jersy. People in New York city and many places in new Jersy felt the need to flee. They beleaved there were under attack by an alian life form. -
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck published
It won the Pulitzer Prize, it's a tale of a family in poverty who is ready for a new start. Thier new begining starts in California. Where the family will reach many fortunes and many chalanges. -
The Wizard of Oz is released
The movie busness was booming and the famous, originaly political, book The Wizard of Oz was made into a musical movie. This scored big in sales and is still one of the most popular classics still veiwed today. -
Germany invades Poland
Marked the start of World War II, in Europe. Soviet and Germany gain control of Poland without their full surrender. This lasts from September 1 - October 6 in 1939.
