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Hoover takes office
Herbert Hoover is elected as President of the United States with an Electoral College victory. The outcome was 444 votes to 87 votes over Democratic candidate, and New york governor Alfred E. Smith. -
RFC
Approved by congress in january 1932. Authorized up to 2 billion for emergency financing for banks, life insurance, railroads, and other large businesses. -
The bonus army
Out of work, and with families to feed, veterans organized a march on Washington in May 1932 to force Congress to pay their bonus. An estimated 15,000 made their way to Washington D.C and they called themselves the Bonus Expeditionary Force. -
FDR elected
Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeated President Hoover in the presidential election.This was a landslide victory. Rosevelt's 472 votes to 59 votes for Hoover began the era of FDR, that would lead the nation through the the Great Depression and the hard times of World War II. -
Hitler takes power
On January 30, 1933, the President of Germany, appointed Adolf Hitler chancellor of Germany. Hitler and the Nazis set out to to spread their power. -
The new deal
The New Deal passed by the United States Congress is a special one hundred day session to solve depression in the United States. -
the dust bowl
The dust bowl happened in the Great Plains, but in 1934 the soil dried up and became dust due to the drought. Wind and this dust caused a large-scale storm that sent millions of tons of topsoil flying across the Great Plains. -
Indian reorganization Act
The Indian Reorganization Act was passed to conserve and develop Indian lands and resources.It gave Indians the right to form business and other organization. It also testablished a credit system for Indians. -
Father coughlin attacks FDR, and jews
A very harsh critic of FDR, for being way to friendy to the banks. He also put a tax on jewish bankers. -
Social security act
The Social Security Act was passed by Congress and signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt. It would begin payouts to retirees within two years. -
social security
Social security was created in 1935 during the Great Depression. Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed the Social Security Act on August, 14 1935. It was part of the New Deal -
Gm sitdown strike
On December 30, 1936, General Motors,GM workers in Flint, Michigan, sat down at their jobs. The workers stayed at work untill a settlement was reached on February 11, 1937. The forty-four day strike was a victory for the United Auto Workers, The GM sit-down strike had a huge impact ffor the history of labor, and business -
Neutrality acts
The neutrality Act limited the U.S. involvement in future wars and was created because people believed that the U.S involvement in World War I resulted in trade with the allied-powers. The 1935 act banned the shipment of war materials to belligerents and forbade U.S. citizens to travel on belligerent vessels. The 1936 act banned loans to belligerents. The 1937 act extended these provisions to civil wars. -
Rape of nanjing
The Rape of Nanjing was the period of wartime committed by the Japanese army in the Chinese city of Nanjing in the late 1930s, in which hundreds of thousands of Chinnese were killed. -
the grapes of wrath
The Grapes of Wrath is a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck. written during the Great Depression,the novel is about a poor family driven from their Oklahoma home by drought, and economic hardships. -
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