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Black Tuesday 1929
This is when the stock market crashed. -
Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor
The year 1932 had seen Hitler’s meteoric rise to prominence in Germany, spurred largely by the German people’s frustration with dismal economic conditions and the still-festering wounds inflicted by defeat in the Great War and the harsh peace terms of the Versailles treaty. -
Frankklin D Roosevelt elected to first presidential term.
He would be elected to a record four terms in office, the only U.S. president to serve more than two terms. -
Roosevelt's Hundred Days
Franklin's "New Deal," it turned out, involved regulation and reform of the banking system, massive government spending to "prime the pump" by restarting the economy and putting people back to work, and the creation of a social services network to support those who had fallen on hard times. -
Roosevelt's Bank Holiday
Monday, March 6, President Roosevelt issued Proclamation 2039 ordering the suspension of all banking transactions, effective immediately. He had taken the oath of office only thirty-six hours earlier. -
Tennesse Valley Authority founded
a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer etc.. -
Works Progress Administration founded
The Works Progress Administration was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads -
The Dust Bowl
This is where "black blizzards" and dust storms formed. -
Social Security Act Passed
The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935. In addition to several provisions for general welfare, the new Act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement. -
FDR elected to second presidential term
it was the most lopsided presidential election in the history of the United States. In terms of the popular vote, it was the second-biggest victory for the winner since the election of 1820, which was not seriously contested. -
Adolf Hitler invades Poland
On this day in 1939, German forces bombard Poland on land and from the air, as Adolf Hitler seeks to regain lost territory and ultimately rule Poland. World War II had begun. -
The London Blitz
This was the period of sustained strategic bombing of the United Kingdom by Nazi Germany during the Second World War. -
FDR elected to third presidential term
Roosevelt was elected to a third term with the promise of maintaining American neutrality as far as foreign wars were concerned: “Let no man or woman thoughtlessly or falsely talk of American people sending its armies to European fields." -
Japanese Attack on Pearl Harbor
This is when Japenese fighter planes attacked Hawaii. -
Executive Order 9066
This was issued by U.S. Pres. Franklin D. Roosevelt, which granted the secretary of war and his commanders the power “to prescribe military areas in such places and of such extent as he or the appropriate Military Commander may determine, from which any or all persons may be excluded.” -
Battle of Midway Island
Six months after the attack on Pearl Harbor, the United States defeated Japan in one of the most decisive naval battles of World War II. Thanks in part to major advances in code breaking, the United States was able to preempt and counter Japan’s planned ambush of its few remaining aircraft carriers, inflicting permanent damage on the Japanese Navy. -
D-Day
It was The Battle of Normandy. -
FDR fourth presidential term
The election was set in the backdrop of World War II, which was going well for the United States and its Allies. -
Batt;e of the Bulge
Adolf Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp. -
FDR Dies
He died over Cerebral Hemorrhage. -
Auschwitz liberated by allied forces.
Auschwitz was liberated by allied forces in April 15 1945. -
V-E Day
It is known as Victory in Europe day. -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Hiroshima
ince 1940, the United States had been working on developing an atomic weapon, after having been warned by Albert Einstein that Nazi Germany was already conducting research into nuclear weapons. By the time the United States conducted the first successful test (an atomic bomb was exploded in the desert in New Mexico in July 1945), Germany had already been defeated. -
Atomic Bomb dropped on Nagasaki
The devastation wrought at Hiroshima was not sufficient to convince the Japanese War Council to accept the Potsdam Conference’s demand for unconditional surrender. The United States had already planned to drop their second atom bomb, nicknamed “Fat Man." -
V-J Day
It is known as Victory of Japan day.
