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On Black Tuesday the stock market crashed. It started the Great Depression.
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F.D.R beats Herbert Hoover in the presidential election.
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Congress passed 15 separate bills that formed the basis of the New Deal.
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President Paul von Hindenburg names Adolf Hitler the Chancellor of Germany.
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Banking transactions were suspended across the nation except for making change. Roosevelt, during this period, presented the Emergency Banking Act.
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The Works Progress Administration (WPA) put unemployed Americans to work in return for temporary financial assistance. In 1935, 3 million jobless men were helped by the WPA.
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The Tennessee Valley Authority Act was one of the acts passed during Roosevelts first 100 days in office. The Tennessee Valley Authority pledged to improve navigability on the Tennessee River, as well as provide flood control, reforest and improve marginal farm land, assist in industrial and agricultural development, and assist in the creation of a government nitrate and phosphorus manufacturing facility.
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It was a drought that hit the panhandles of Oklahoma and Texas. The topsoil lacked root systems like grass to hold down the topsoil. When the wind blew it caused what was called "Black Blizzards".
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It generated more programs to help numerous groups of Americans.
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FDR beats Alfred M. Landon in the presidential election.
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Germany forces attack Poland on land and in air. It was the begining of World War II.
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300 German bombers begin bombing London. The lightening war lasted until May of 1941.
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FDR beat Thomas Dewey in the presidential election.
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Hundreds of Japanese planes attack the American naval base near Honolulu, Hawaii.
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It was an order to try to provent sabotage from the Japanese Americans. The order also affected German and Italian Americans.
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American forces battle Japanese forces at Midway Island.
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American, British, and Canadian troops landed on 5 beaches along a 50 mile stretch of the coast of Normandy.
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FDR won his fourth election.
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It was the German's last attempt in the war. This battle took place in Belgium.
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Allied forces liberate the people who were left inside Auschwitz.
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FDR passes away and Harry S. Trumann becomes president.
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The United States, Britain, and other western European countries celebrate the victory over Germany.
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America drops an atomic bomb (Little Boy) on Japan.
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America drops another atomic bomb (Fat Man) on Japan.
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It was Victory over Japan Day. It was both August 14th and 15th. Japan had surrendered after the second atomic bomb.
