great depression and wwII timeline

  • black tuedays 1929

    the stock makert crashed
  • the dust bowl

    big strom of dust form the wind blowing the dust up
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected to first presidential term

    first time as elected as president
  • Roosevelt’s Bank Holiday

  • Roosevelt’s Hundred Days

    which he planned to end the great depression
  • Tennessee Valley Authority founded

    The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation
  • Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor

    bacme German chancellor
  • Works Progress Administration created

    The Works Progress Administration was the largest and most ambitious American New Deal agency, employing millions of unemployed people to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads
  • Social Security Act passed

    After a Conference which lasted throughout July, the bill was finally passed and sent to President Roosevelt for his signature. The Social Security Act was signed into law by President Roosevelt on August 14, 1935.
  • FDR elected to second presidential term

    second term as president
  • Adolf Hitler invades Poland

    hitler leds gremany to Poland
  • The London Blitz

    The appearance of German bombers in the skies over London during the afternoon of September 7, 1940 heralded a tactical shift in Hitler's attempt to subdue Great Britain
  • FDR elected to third presidential term

    third term as presidant
  • Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor

    japan attack the United States at Pearl Harbor
  • Executive Order 9066

    Executive Order 9066 is a United States presidential executive order signed and issued during World War II by the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, authorizing the Secretary of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones.
  • The Battle of Midway

    The Battle of Midway was a crucial and decisive naval battle in the Pacific Theatre of World War II.
  • D-Day

    On June 6, 1944, more than 160,000 Allied troops landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline, to fight Nazi Germany on the beaches of Normandy, France
  • Auschwitz liberated by Allied Forces

    As Allied troops moved across Europe in a series of offensives against Nazi Germany, they began to encounter tens of thousands of concentration camp prisoners
  • FDR elected to fourth presidential term

    FDR fourth presidential term
  • Battle of the Bulge

    The Battle of the Bulge was a major German offensive campaign launched through the densely forested Ardennes region of Wallonia in Belgium, France, and Luxembourg on the Western Front toward the end of World War II in Europe
  • FDR dies

    FDR dies in Warm Springs, GA
  • V-E Day

    On 30 April, Adolf Hitler, the Nazi leader, committed suicide during the Battle of Berlin. Germany's surrender, therefore, was authorized by his successor,
  • Atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima

    In August 6 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • Atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki

    In August 9 1945, during the final stage of the Second World War, the United States dropped atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
  • V-J Day

    Victory over Japan Day also known as Victory in the Pacific Day, V-J Day, or V-P Day is a name chosen for the day on which Japan surrendered, in effect ending World War II, and subsequent anniversaries of that event.