1930's

Black Tuesday - Stock Market Crashes

Oct 29, 1929

stock market crashed due to credit purchasing and led to an estimated loss of 50 billion dollars. Started the worst depression in american history

Pluto is discovered

Feb 18, 1930

Pluto was found and confirmed as the ninth planet in our solar system

Hawley-Smoot Tariff

Jun 17, 1930

Raised U.S tariffs on 20,000 goods, caused the second highest taxes in US history

Star-Spangled Banner becomes the national anthem

Mar 3, 1931

Americans new national anthem from a poem written in the revolutionary war

Empire State Building is completed

May 1, 1931

Empire State Building is being built and was the tallest building in the world in 1931

Run of the Banks

Dec 17, 1931

Customers run to the banks to get their money with the depression looming

Lindbergh baby kidnapped

Mar 1, 1932

Most publisized crime of the era. The baby was found dead with skull fracture in May

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President

Mar 4, 1933

Elected as democratic candidate now president

21st Amendment

Dec 5, 1933

ended prohibition on alchohol

New Deal

Dec 17, 1933

FDR's programs to setting up a better economy, lasted until 1936

Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) established

Dec 17, 1934

Holds full responsibily for regulation laws and security

Social Security Act

Aug 14, 1935

Support for the elderly

Hoover Dam completed

Mar 1, 1936

Proveded many jobs for unemplayed americans and 112 deaths were lost in the buliding of it

Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell publishes

Jun 30, 1936

About a man womans love affair

Jessie Owens wins four gold medals at Berlin Olympics

Aug 9, 1936

African American who ran track and feild and beat a German in front of Hitler

FDR re-elected

Nov 3, 1936

He served a total of 4 terms

Hindenburg crashes

May 6, 1937

German airship that burst into flames 200ft above its landing spot, killing 35 people

Amelia Earhart disappears

Jul 2, 1937

Tryed flying around the world but went misssing, Many say she crashed while looking for an island to get fuel

War of the Worlds Broadcast

Oct 30, 1938

News people would listen to on their radios

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck

Apr 14, 1939

Number 1 best seller, by may this book strongly represented the depression

Germany Invades Poland

Aug 25, 1939

When Germany invaded, it onlytook weeks to defeatPolands army, this started WWII

The Wizard of Oz

Aug 25, 1939

Based on the novel writen by Frank L. Baum