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Hoover signs Smoot-Hawley Tariff Bill, placing the largest tariffs ever on American goods, especially significant for minerals, chemicals, textiles and farm goods
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"Star Spangled Banner" becomes the country's official national anthem.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt, a democrat from New York, defeats Hoover for the presidency.
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becomes the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.
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Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany. Th beginning of his reign as a dictator.
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FDR goes on radio to talk directly with citizens and reassure them that the banking crisis has passed. This is his first "fireside chat" and it gave the President a way to bypass the traditional print media.
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Congress passes the Fair Labor Standards Act giving sanction to the minimum wage and maximum work week
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Roosevelt meets with members of the Senate Military Affairs Committee to discuss the policy of selling airplanes to France
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Germany invades Poland. Great Britain declares war on Germany.
