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Investors traded some 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost wiping out thousands of investors on Wall Street.
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FDR was the 32nd Presdient of The United States. He deafted Hoover in the presidentail election in 1932.
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He passed 15 bills in the first 100 days as presdeidnt and changed Americas economics for ever.
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In this Year he became very powerful. His plan, embraced by much of the German population, was to do away with politics and make Germany a powerful, unified one-party state.
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Roosevelt declared a "bank holiday" From March 6 to March 10, banking transactions were suspended across the nation except for making change.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority is the nation's largest public power provider and a corporation of the U.S. government
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Over 150,000 thousand square miles had ittle rainfall, light soil, and high winds, a potentially destructive combination.
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the WPA was established under the Emergency Relief Appropriation Act, as a means of creating government jobs for some of the nation’s many unemployed.
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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
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The Polish army was defeated within weeks of the invasion. German units, with more than 2,000 tanks and over 1,000 planes, broke through Polish defenses along the border and advanced on Warsaw in a massive encirclement attack.
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Roosevelt was elected to a third term with the promise of maintaining American neutrality.president fought for passage of the Lend-Lease Act in Congress, in March 1941, which would commit financial aid to Great Britain and other allies
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Hitler's attempt to subdue Great Britain. During the previous two months, German prepared to take the island.
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Hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii.
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The order authorized transporting these citizens to assembly centers hastily set up and governed by the military.
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World War II, naval battle, fought almost entirely with aircraft, in which the United States destroyed Japan's first-line carrier strength and most of its best trained naval pilots.
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More than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France. Gen.
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When FDR was elected to his fourth term, his health began to decline. On the bright side the Allies began to take control in WWII.
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Adolph Hitler attempted to split the Allied armies in northwest Europe.Caught off-guard, American units fought desperate battles to stem the German advance at St.-Vith, Elsenborn Ridge, Houffalize and Bastogne.
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Only about 6,000 jewish inmates were liberated on this date.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt was pronounced dead in Warm Springs, Georgia due to cerebral hemorrhage.
