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The stock market crashed.
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Along with the Great Depression was the Dust Bowl in the middle of the country. The Dust Bowl was taking place in the Great Plains. Which included Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado.
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Chicago gangster Al Capone was convicted of income tax evasion and later sentenced to 11 years in federal prison, ending his control of the Chicago underworld.
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At the peak of the Great Depression the unemployed persons in the U.S. had reached 8.7 percent up about 5 percent from when the Great Depression had started.
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Alcatraz went from a prison to a federal prison.
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After months of negotiations, the president of Germany, Paul von Hindenburg, will appoint Hitler chancellor of Germany.
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The amount of unemployed workers was on the rise. People couldn't find jobs to support their family.
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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the one mile wide, three mile long channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean.
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The Lockheed aircraft carrying American aviator Amelia Earhart and navigator Frederick Noonan is reported missing near Howland Island in the Pacific.
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German troops march into Austria to annex the German-speaking nation for the Third Reich. In early 1938, Austrian Nazis conspired for the second time in four years to seize the Austrian government by force and unite their nation with Nazi Germany.
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World War 2 began and ended on September 2 1945
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He was elected for his third term.
