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Black Tuesday hit Wall Street as 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.
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By March there were 13,000,000 unemployed, and almost every bank was closed. In his first "hundred days,' he proposed, and Congress enacted, a sweeping program to bring recovery to business and agriculture, relief to the enemployed and to those in danger of losing farms and homes, and reform, especially through the establishment of the Tennessee Valley Authority.
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On this day in 1933, President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fUhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany.
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Issued Proclamation 2039 ordering the suspension of all banking transactions, effective immediately. He had taken the oath of office only thirty-six hours earlier.
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Creating the TVA as a Federal corporation. The new agency was asked to tackle important problems facing the valley, such as flooding, providing electricity to homes and businesses, and replanting forests.
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Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America. The 150,000-square-mile area, encompassing the Oklahoma and Texas.
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To provide for the general welfare by establishing a system of Federal old-age benefits, and by enabling the several States to make more adequate provision for aged persons, blind persons, dependent and crippled children, maternal and child welfare, public health, and the administration of their unemplyment.
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Congress followed Roosevelts's lead by passing an incredible fifteen spearate bills whihc, together, formaed the basis of the New Deal. Several of the programs created during those three and a half months are still around in the federal government today.
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Was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people (mostly unskiled men) to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
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On this day in 1940, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who first took office in 1933 as America's 32nd president, is nominated for an unprecedentedthird term.
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The appearance of German bombers in the skies over London during afternoon of September 7, 1940 heralded a tactical shift in Hitler's attempt of subdue Great Britain.
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Roosevelt was elected to a third term with the promise of maintaing 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."
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On that day, Japanese planes attacked the United States Naval Base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii Territory. The bombing killed more than 2,300 Americans. It completely destroyed the American battleship U.S.S. Arizona and capsized the U.S.S. Oklahoma.
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Issued by President Franklin Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, this order authorized the evacuation of all persons deemed a threat to national security from the West Coast to relocation centers further inland.
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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
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As allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners.
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On this day in 1944, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office. FDR remains the only president to have served more than two terms.
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Adolph Hitler attempted to split the allied armies in northwest Europe by means of a surprise blitzkrieg thrust through the Ardennes to Antwerp.
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Victory in Europe Day (VE Day) was on May 8th, 1945. VE Day officially announced the end of World War Two in Europe.
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On this day in 1945, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt passes away after four momentous terms in office, leaving Vice President Harry S. Truman in chrage of a country still fighting the Second World War and in possession of a weapon of unprecedented and terrifying power.
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The United 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. Though the dropping of the atomic bomb on Japan marked the end of World War II, many historians argue that it also ignited the Cold War.
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On this day in 1945, a second atom bomb is dropped on Japan by the United States, at Nagasaki, resulting finally in Japan's unconditional surrender.
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It was announced that Japan had surrendered unconditionally to the Allies, effectively ending World War II. Since then, both August 14 and August 15 have been known as "Victoryover Japan Day,' or simply "V-J Day.'
