Great Depression and World War II events

Black tuesday

Oct 19, 1929

wallstreet crash

Franklin D Roosevelt elected to first presidential term

Mar 4, 1933

Franklin became president the first time March 4 1933

Roosevelts Hundred Days

Mar 4, 1933

Planned to put an end to depression that was thought to be caused by the former president

Roosevelts bank holiday

Mar 6, 1933

suspended bank accounts

Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor

Mar 19, 1933

Adolf Hitler starts his chancellor life in 1933

Tennessee Valley Authority founded

Mar 19, 1933

to adress a wide range of issues

The dust bowl

Mar 19, 1934

Terrible drought throughout the 1930s

works progress administration created

Apr 8, 1935

agency employing millions of people

Social security act passed

Aug 15, 1935

a new social insurance made

Adolf Hitler invades Poland

Mar 19, 1939

Adolf invaded Poland fall of 1939

The london blitz

Mar 19, 1940

The appearance of German bombers over london

FDR elected to second term

Nov 5, 1940

FDR elected for his second term in Nvember 1940

Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

The attack that led into World War II. Suprise attack by Japanese

Executive order 9066

Feb 19, 1942

evacuation of all people deemed a threat

Battle of midway island

Jun 4, 1942

Americans beat a fleet of Japanese air fire

D-day

Jun 6, 1944

16000 american troops deployed to fight Nazi troops

FDR elected to third presidential term

Nov 7, 1944

FDR gets elected for the third time as president

FDR fouth presidential term

Nov 7, 1944

wins his final term

Battle of the Bulge

Dec 16, 1944

german offensive campaign

Auschwitz liberated by Allied forces

Mar 19, 1945

freed people from concentration camps

FDR dies

Apr 12, 1945

FDR died