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herbert hoover takes office
the 31st President of the United States (1929–1933) -
neutrality acts
laws that were passed by the United States Congress in the 1930s, in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II -
the bonus army
popular name of an assemblage of some 43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C -
hitler takes power
hitler adolf hitler rose to power in germany and led -
the new deal
series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936 -
indian reorganization act
was U.S. federal legislation that secured certain rights to Native Americans, including Alaska Natives -
social security act
drafted during Roosevelt's first term by the President's Committee on Economic Security, under Frances Perkins, and passed by Congress as part of the New Deal -
the dust bowl
period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936 -
GM Sit-down strike
changed the United Automobile Workers (UAW) from a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major labor union and led to the unionization of the domestic United States automobile industry -
rape of nanjing
mass murder, genocide and war rape that occured durning the six-week period following the japanese capture of the city of nanjing -
father coughlin attacks FDR, jews
became perhaps the most prominent Roman Catholic spokesman on political and financial issues in the 1930s, with a radio audience that reached millions every week -
the grapes of wrath
novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, who was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940 and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1962.