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Fraser Belfiori 1930's timeling
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Herbert Hoover takes office
Herbert Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. In the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected office experience. When the Wall Street Crash of 1929 struck less than eight months after he took office he was to be blamed. He didn't win in the next election for the failure of overcoming the Great Depression. -
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl or the Dirty Thirties was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936. The phenomenon was caused by severe drought coupled with decades of extensive farming without crop rotation, fallow fields, cover crops or other techniques to prevent erosion. -
RFC
The RFC is also known as the Reconstruction Finance Corporation. The Emergency Relief Act allowed for the RFC to distribute money to state govenments for direct relief. This was Herbert Hoover's program to help early on in the depression by trying to inspire confidence in banks. The picture shows a chart of the employed and unemployed people during The Great Depression. -
The Bonus Army
Congress voted that a bonus should be given out to the World War I vetrans but not until 1945. However, in 1932 15,000 veterans, many unemployed and destitute, descended on Washington, D.C. to demand immediate payment of their bonus. Hoover wanted them evacuated out of the camps because they wouldn't leave so they sent in the military who threw tear gas at them. By morning the camp was in fire. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected
Born in 1882 at Hyde Park, New York and attended Harvard University and Columbia Law School. He was married Eleanor Roosevelt.He was elected President in November 1932, to the first of four terms. He was our 32nd president of the United States. He created Soical Securtiy. -
The New Deal
The New Deal is a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936. They were passed by the U.S. Congress during the first term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States, The programs were responses to the Great Depression, and focused relief, recovery and reform. -
Father Coughlin attacks FDR, Jews
Coughlin was the most prominent Roman Catholic speaker on political and financial issues, with a radio audience that reached millions of people every week. When he began criticizing the New Deal that year, Roosevelt sent Joseph P. Kennedy and Frank Murphy to try to tone him down. He ignored them and turned agasint Roosevelt and talked badly about Jews. -
Indian Reorganization Act
Also known as the Wheeler-Howard Act, was a U.S. federal legislation which secured certain rights to Native Americans, including Alaska Natives. These include a reversal of the Dawes Act's privatization of common holdings of American Indians and a return to local self-government on a tribal basis. The Act also restored to Native Americans the management of their assets and included provisions intended to create a sound economic foundation for the inhabitants of Indian reservations. -
Hitler Takes Power
Hitler decided to seize power constitutionally rather than by force of arms. In 1932, Hitler ran for President and won 30% of the vote, forcing the eventual victor, Paul von Hindenburg, into a runoff election. A political deal was made to make Hitler chancellor in exchange for his political support. He was appointed to that office in January 1933. Upon the death of Hindenburg in August 1934, Hitler was the consensus successor. Hitler claimed credit and consolidated his position as a dictator. -
Neutrality Acts
The Neutrality Acts were laws that were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism in the US following its costly involvement in World War I, and sought to ensure that the US would not become entangled again in foreign conflicts. -
Social Security
Many people were appalled of Roosevelts new deal. He responded with a new program of reform: Social Security, heavier taxes on the wealthy, new controls over banks and public utilities, and an enormous work relief program for the unemployed. -
GM Sit-down strike
The Flint police attempted to enter the plant on January 11, 1937. The strikers inside the plant turned the fire hoses on the police while pelting them with hinges and other auto parts as members of the women's auxiliary broke windows in the plant to give strikers some relief from the tear gas the police were using against them. -
Rape of Nanking
Rape of Nanking, was a mass murder and war rape that occurred during the six-week period following the Japanese capture of the city of Nanjing. During this period, hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilians and disarmed soldiers were murdered and 80,000 women were raped by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army. -
The Grapes of Wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, Set during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads, a poor family of sharecroppers driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, economic hardship, and changes in financial and agricultural industries.
