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1929
the stock market crashes -
1930
The growing US population reaching 134 million -
1931
By 1931 Al Capone was convicted of bootlegging and gambling making it prohibited but was ignored by the public making gangsters rich. -
1929-1932
US income drops 40 percent -
1933
in 1933 Hitler becomes chancellor -
1933
FDR is elected president -
1934
Number of farms peak in 1934 -
1935
Nuremberg Laws were set in place -
1938
War of the Worlds begun -
1939
UK declared war on Germany -
1940
The Battle of Britain -
1940
Leon Trotski assassination -
1940
The Blitz -
1940
Roosevelt's third term -
1941
The bombing of Pearl Harbor -
1942
Japanese Americans internment -
1944
D-Day -
1945
Hiroshima and Nagasaki -
1945
World War 2 has ended in Europe -
1946
The Soviet Union develops their own atomic bomb -
1950
Start of the baby boom -
1950
Joseph McCarthy's red scare -
1950
Korean War started -
1950
President Truman approves Hydrogen bomb construction -
1952
The Us and Japan sign a peace treaty -
1952
Immigration and Naturalization Act -
1953
DNA is discovered -
1955
The reelection of Prime Minister Winston Churchill -
1955
Vietnam War begins -
1957
Russia launches Sputnik -
1959
Antartica Treaty -
1959
Alaska becomes a part of the U.S.A.