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Harper Lee was born.
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Great Depression
The Great Depression (1929-39) was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and rising levels of unemployment as failing companies laid off workers -
Racism and Accusation.
The Scottsboro Boys were nine black teenage boys accused of rape in Alabama in 1931. The landmark set of legal cases from this incident dealt with racism and the right to a fair trial. The case includes a frameup, all-white jury, rushed trials, an attempted lynching, angry mob, and miscarriage of justice. -
The Swing Era
In the late 30s and early 40s swing music became the new hit. -
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World War II
World War II is the best way of saying why we got out of the Great Depression. Because of war there was jobs that became available and needed such as making guns and other weapons, and it even gave women the chance to work at factories. -
Attack of Pearl Harbor
Pearl Harbor Naval Base,Hawaii was attacked by the Japenese. Isoroku Yamamoto, Commander of the Japanese Combined Fleet, had initiated planning for a surprise attack on the United States Pacific Fleet at the beginning of any hostilities that the Japanese might undertake.The assumption was that before the United States could recover from a surprise blow, the Japanese would be able to seize all their objectives in the Far East, and could then hold out indefinitely. Approximately 2,400 people died.
