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Stock Market Crash
In 1929, America's stock market saw the worst downturn in recorded history. In the years that would follow, unemployment would remain remarkably high and living conditions of common workers would remain dismal. Photo retrieved from: http://38.media.tumblr.com/c003aba3e7028200564077b28bd351e4/tumblr_ne7kwdf9u21tgckc1o1_400.jpg -
Franklin Delano Roosevelt Takes Office
With FDR's inauguration came the New Deal and rapid reform in order to create jobs for Americans and lower unemployment rates. Photo retrieved from: http://www.prairie.org/files/ihc/images/fdr.img_assist_custom-250x294.jpg -
Publication of Harry Sternberg's Riveter
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Creation of the Works Progress Administration
As part of Roosevelt's radical New Deal actions, the Works Progress Administration was created to assist American workers and lower the unemployment rate. It employed painters, writers, musicians, and other artists to promote the growth of the arts and the advancement of the American people as a whole. Photo retrieved from: http://f1.bcbits.com/img/a0999958632_10.jpg -
Publication of Charles Frederick Ramus's The Coal Pickers
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Publication of Harry Gotlieb's Going to Work
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Japanese Bombing of Pearl Harbor and the Beginnings of American Involvement in World War II
When Japanese fighter pilots launched a sneak attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor in Hawaii, the nation was shocked and outraged, immediately demanding to declare war on Japan and its allies. Photo retrieved from: http://www.rabstol.net/uploads/gallery/main/369/rabstol_net_world_of_warplanes_12.jpg -
Allied Victory and the End of World War II
As Axis powers began to surrender, Americans began to feel once again the peace that seemed so distant during the war. The American economy continued to prosper as a result of wartime production and renewed pride in the American industrial system. Photo retrieved from: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-5nOZWst3R3w/Te-g9NvJf3I/AAAAAAAAAns/RXhJ8LAIgUw/s1600/Stroh_TimesSquare.jpg
