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Depression and WWII Timeline

By Mythire
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    Great Depression Events

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    WWII Events

  • Black tuesday

    Black tuesday

    Traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day which ended up having billions of dollars lost taking out thousands of investors.
  • Roosevelt’s Hundred Days

    Roosevelt’s Hundred Days

    He has proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to the business and agriculture.
  • Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor

    Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor

    On this day in 1933 President Paul von Hindenburg has named Adolf Hitler, leader of chancellor of Germany
  • Roosevelt’s Bank Holiday

    Roosevelt’s Bank Holiday

    from the days of March 6-10 banking transactions were suspended across the nation except for making change. During this period he presented the ne Congress with the Emergency Banking Act
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term

    Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term

    Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected his first presidential term in 1933. He helped the American people that had little or no faith gain faith in themselves as he promised hope he brought it. "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"
  • Tennessee Valley Authority founded

    Tennessee Valley Authority founded

    Tennessee Valley Authority was founded
  • The Dust Bowl

    The Dust Bowl

    When the drought first struck in 1934 the soil lacked the stronger root system of grass as an anchor. The wind was easily able to pick up and take the top layer of soild with it and swirled it into dense dust clouds some eople called black blizzards. It wreaked havoc, choked the cattle that was caught in its path and frove 60% of the population from the located area
  • Works Progress Administration created

    Works Progress Administration created

    Works Progress Administration was founded
  • Social Security Act passed

    Social Security Act passed

    The Solcial Security Act was drafted during FDR's first term by the President's committee
  • FDR elected to second presidential term

    FDR elected to second presidential term

    He was re-elected by a top-heavy margin. Feeling that he was armed with a poular mandate he looked for legislation to enlarge the Supreme Court Which had been invalidating key New Deal measures.
  • Adolf Hitler Invades Poland

    Adolf Hitler Invades Poland

    This is the first country that he invaded and it struck other countries attention
  • The London Blitz

    The London Blitz

    Hitler sent an attack on to subde Great Britan
  • FDR elected to third presidential term

    FDR elected to third presidential term

    Roosevelt wasa elected to a third term
  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    The japenses bombed American Property which took them to war
  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066

    Order the Japanese to the camps
  • Battle of Midway Island

    Battle of Midway Island

    WWII naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft
  • Battle of the Bulge

    Battle of the Bulge

    hitler attempted to split the allied armies in the northwest
  • FDR elected to fourth presidential term

    FDR elected to fourth presidential term

    he is the only president that has served more than 2 terms
  • D-Day

    D-Day

    American troops invaded normady to push troops out of france
  • Auschwitz liberated by Allied Forces

    Auschwitz liberated by Allied Forces

    they were the first to apporch a major Nazi camp, reaching Majdanek near lublin, Polan in july
  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

    Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

    The unitded states becomes the first and only nation to use atomic weaponry during wartime when it drops an atomic bomb on the japanese city of Hiroshima
  • FDR dies

    FDR dies

    FDR dies on April 12, 1945
  • V-E Day

    was offically anoounced the end of WWII in Europe
  • Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

    Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

    A uranium gun type atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima followed by a plutonium implosion type bomb on the city of Nagasaki
  • V-J Day

    V-J Day

    Japan unconditionally surrendered to the allies