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Stock Market Crash
The market crash in a single day making every central bank lose most of their money, by the end of the year $30b had been lost. -
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Great Depression
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Dust Bowl
The southwestern states in the great plains region was going through a massive drought lasting almost a decade, thousands of farmers suffered greatly resulting in many of them not being able to support their families -
Farmer's Revolt
During WW1 farmers were paid much more because the food had to be shipped to all the fighters, after it was done the prices fell by a large margin, it was hard for them to get everything back and it got much worse during the Great Depression, the farmers went on strike to ask for better policies for them. -
Election of 1932
FDR is elected into office by a landslide, with his New Deal strategy to help the country recover. -
Emergency Banking System Act
Congress passes the Emergency Banking Act. Resulting in almost all of the banks that had closed when the Depression started to reopen successfully throughout the whole country. -
The Civilian Conservation Corps
The CCC is created making thousands of young men go to camps to work on projects provided by the government in hopes of getting men to start working again reviving the economic cycle. -
The Tennessee Valley Authority
Another New Deal program rolled by FDR, brings electricity and jobs to young Americans living in the southern regions of the country -
Social Security
The Act provides money every month for senior citizens living in the US. One of the more popular things rolled out, still used to this day. -
The economy goes through another recession
After showing some improvement thanks to the New Deal policies, the economy goes on a downward spiral after more Americans lose their jobs. Many people begin to lose hope that things will ever get better and FDR begins to lose support -
Start of WW2
The start of the second world war overseas, the German invasion of European countries marked the start of the war. The US remained neutral for the time being -
Creation of Axis powers
Germany, Japan, and Italy band together under the "pact of steel" and started to invade everything -
Failure of the League of Nations
The formation of the league of nations was mostly to prevent another world war form starting but in the end after the US refused to join it, the league failed to have enough influence to prevent anything from happening -
US supports Britain in war
The US started to send supplies to Britain while they were at war, this completely broke their neutrality rule once and for all -
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War Industry
The suffering industry in the US saw the safe haven of the war industry where they could start manufacturing planes, cars, and tanks for the army. This created a ton of jobs for people but also a dependency on the creation of these products -
Germany declares war on the Soviet Union
After the fall of France, Germany decided that its time for the Soviet Union to fall and invaded their land starting their involvement in the war. -
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WW2
Our involvement begins on the Pearl Harbor attacks and ended with the Japanese surrender -
Battle of wake island
The Japanese won this one only losing four ships, one submarine, and some 1,000 lives were lost being Americans and Guamanians in their defense of the island -
Rationing begins
a rationing program was established that reduced the amount of gas, food and clothing citizens could purchase, families were issued ration stamps that were used to buy their allotment of everything from food to clothes. While being told that the rest were going to soldiers in the front lines -
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Women in the Workforce
As men were being enlisted into the army, many women had to join the workforce to fill the void left by men. This sparked the beginning of a large scale feminist movement across the US -
Battle of coral sea
It was the first time in WW2 that the Japanese experienced failure in a major battle and. the battle stopped the Japanese sea born expansion. This marked a turning point for the US' naval campaign in ww2 -
Fall of Italy
Italy had been defeated by the allies and Mussolini was overthrown. This marked the start of the winds for the allies in the span of the war -
Fall of the Nazis
After Germany was pushed in two separate fronts one by the allies and one by the soviets. When berlin was finally breached Hitler killed himself in his bunker marking the end of the Nazis -
Nagasaki and Hiroshima Incident
The most important in the last 100 years as this marked the first time nuclear weapons were presented in the world stage. This would change the course of the world forever -
End of the War
Japan after getting nuked twice decided that they'd enough and surrendered marking the end of the Axis powers and ending the second world war