Depression and WWII Timeline

  • Roosevelt’s Bank Holiday

    In days past, depositing money in a savings account carried a degree of RISK. If a bank made bad investments and was forced to close, individuals who did not withdraw their money fast enough found themselves out of luck.
  • Balck Tuesday of 1929

    this caused the stock maret to crash making us lose millions of dollars and also led it to the great depression
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    The Dust Bowl

    The drout that caused the land to be really dry casuing crps and animals to be killed because of the dust they called it the "black Blizzard"
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term

    he was first elected president but then was president 4 times in a row
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    Roosevelt’s Hundred Days

    Between 8 March and 16 June, in what later became known as the "First Hundred Days," Congress followed Roosevelt's lead by passing an incredible fifteen separate bills which, together, formed the basis of the New Deal.
  • Tennessee Valley Authority founded

    From the New Deal to a New Century Introduction
    The Tennessee Valley Authority is the nation's largest public power provider and a corporation of the U.S. government. TVA was established by Congress in 1933 to address a wide range of environmental, economic, and technological issues, including the delivery of low-cost electricity and the management of natural resources.
  • Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor

    President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler, leader or fÜhrer of the National Socialist German Workers Party (or Nazi Party), as chancellor of Germany.
  • Works Progress Administration created

    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
  • Social Security Act passed

    The Social Security Act was enacted August 14, 1935. The Act was drafted during President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first term by the President's Committee on Economic Security, under Frances Perkins, and passed by Congress as part of the New Deal.
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    FDR elected to third presidential term

    he ws reelected a couple of times
  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland

    he attacked poland threw the air and on land, he wanted to take over
  • FDR elected to second presidential term

    Roosevelt was elected to a third term with the promise of maintaining American neutrality as far as foreign wars were concerned:
  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    hundreds of Japanese fighter planes attacked the American naval base at Pearl Harbor near Honolulu, Hawaii
  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066 is a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones.