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Herbert Hoover's tenure as the 31st president of the United States began on his inauguration on March 4, 1929, and ended on March 4, 1933.
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The stock market crash of 1929, also known as the Great Crash, occurred in late October 1929 and marked the beginning of the Great Depression. -
A bank failure occurs when a bank cannot meet its financial obligations to its depositors and other creditors because it has become insolvent or too illiquid to pay its debts. -
Hoovervilles were makeshift shantytowns of homeless people during the Great Depression, built from scavenged materials and named derisively after President Herbert Hoover
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The Dust Bowl was a period of severe dust storms in the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s, caused by a combination of a severe drought and aggressive
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The Smoot-Hawley Tariff was signed into law by President Herbert Hoover on June 17, 1930. The act, officially the Hawley-Smoot Tariff Act, -
The Scottsboro Boys case involved the false accusation, arrest, and multiple racially-charged trials of nine Black teenagers in Scottsboro, Alabama, in 1931.
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The Bonus Army was a protest in Washington, D.C., in 1932, where thousands of World War I veterans and their families marched to demand the early payment of a bonus they were promised for their service.
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The Black Cabinet was an organized but unofficial group of African-American advisors to President Franklin D.
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The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. Wikipedia -
The Holocaust, known in Hebrew as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. From 1941 to 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe, around two-thirds of Europe's Jewish population. -
Roosevelt began on January 20, 1941, when he was once again inaugurated as the 32nd president of the United States, and the fourth term of his presidency ended with his death on April 12, 1945.
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Bank holidays in the US are federal public holidays during which banks close, such as New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Presidents' Day, Memorial Day, Juneteenth, Independence Day, Labor Day, Columbus Day, Veterans Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day -
President Franklin D. Roosevelt's first Fireside Chat was on March 12, 1933, and addressed the banking crisis during the Great Depression,
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The FDIC was created by the Banking Act of 1933 and signed into law on June 16, 1933, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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a U.S. federal law aimed at reversing assimilation policies and promoting Native American self-governance and cultural revitalization
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The National Housing Act of 1934 established the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) to stimulate home building and homeownership during the Great Depression by providing mortgage insurance to lenders
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created the social insurance program to provide income to retired workers, as well as benefits for survivors and people with disabilities.
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The War Refugee Board (WRB) was a U.S. government agency established in 1944 by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to rescue Jews and other victims of Nazi persecution during World War II -
a U.S. government agency, established by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in January 1944, to rescue Jews and other victims of persecution in Nazi-occupied -
The Buchenwald concentration camp was liberated on April 11, 1945, by the U.S. Third Army. As American forces closed in, an underground prisoner resistance organization took control of the camp, preventing the SS from carrying out a complete evacuation and saving thousands of lives. -
The liberation of the Buchenwald concentration camp occurred on April 11, 1945, when U.S. forces arrived to find over 21,000 prisoners, many severely emaciated and ill. Buchenwald, located near Weimar, Germany, was one of the largest concentration camps within German territory. -
Little Boy was a type of atomic bomb created by the Manhattan Project during World War II. The name is also often used to describe the specific bomb used in the bombing of the Japanese city of Hiroshima -
a plutonium-fueled, implosion-type weapon dropped by the United States on Nagasaki, Japan, on August 9, 1945, three days after the bombing of Hiroshima -
Victory over Japan Day is the day on which Imperial Japan surrendered in World War II, in effect bringing the war to an end. -
The United Nations is an international organization founded in 1945 after World War II to promote global peace and security. -
The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and committing atrocities against their citizens in World War II. -
The Nuremberg trials were held by the Allies against representatives of the defeated Nazi Germany for plotting and carrying out invasions of other countries across Europe and committing atrocities against their citizens in World War II. -
The Truman Doctrine was a U.S. foreign policy established in 1947 that committed the United States to providing political, military, and economic assistance to democratic nations threatened by communist expansion. -
a U.S. initiative to provide economic aid to Western Europe following World War II. Proposed by Secretary of State George Marshall in 1947 -
The Universal Declaration of Human Rights is an international document adopted by the United Nations General Assembly that codifies some of the rights and freedoms of all human beings -
a historic document adopted by the United Nations on December 10, 1948, that sets out the basic rights and freedoms to which all humans are entitled. I -
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) is a political and military alliance of 32 member countries from Europe and North America