1930's

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  • Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act

    Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act
    the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act is passed by congress.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    Franklin D. Roosevelt
    Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes president.

  • the New Deal

    the New Deal
    President Roosevelt starts to make bills to resolve some of the Depression's problems.

  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl
    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

  • Social Security

    Social Security
    President Roosevelt creates the Social Security Act.

  • FDR

    FDR
    President Roosevelt is re-elected for a second term.

  • Hindenburg

    Hindenburg
    The Hindenburg explodes in Lakehurst, New Jersey.

  • Fair Labor Standards Act

    Fair Labor Standards Act
    This established minimum wage in the U.S.

  • Orson Welles

    Orson Welles
    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

  • Marian Anderson

    Marian Anderson
    The Daughters of the American Revolution refuses to let Marian Anderson perform because she was black.

  • World War Two

    World War Two
    President Roosevelt declares the U.S. to be neutral in the war.