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the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act is passed by congress.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes president.
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President Roosevelt starts to make bills to resolve some of the Depression's problems.
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Dust storms ruin about 100 million acres and damage another 200 million acres of cropland in Kansas, Texas, Colorado, and Oklahoma. Citation: http://www.infoplease.com/year/1934.html
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President Roosevelt creates the Social Security Act.
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President Roosevelt is re-elected for a second term.
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The Hindenburg explodes in Lakehurst, New Jersey.
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This established minimum wage in the U.S.
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Orson Welles broadcasts his adaptation of H.G. Wells's War of the Worlds, creating a nationwide panic as listeners believe that aliens have landed in New Jersey Citation: http://www.infoplease.com/year/1938.html
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The Daughters of the American Revolution refuses to let Marian Anderson perform because she was black.
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President Roosevelt declares the U.S. to be neutral in the war.
