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This is the beginning of the Stock market crash.
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Dust Bowl begins after a large drought, the worst in 300 years.
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Food riots break out in parts of the United States, Empire State Building has been completed.
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Roosevelt makes the "New Deal" speech in July, and then was later elected as the 32nd US President.
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Roosevelt calls for the "Bank Holiday" which closed all banks.
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15 new laws are quickly set in order to fight the Great Depression, Roosevelt launches the New Deal with the Emergency Banking Act.
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This act prohibited private ownership of gold and doubled the value of it. This changed the previous gold history.
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The FDR passes the act to teach farmers more sustainable methods to conserve.
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This act provided income to the elderly, blind, disabled, and children in low-income families.
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12 states experienced temperatures nearing 110 degrees, including four states that broke 120 degrees. That heat killed about 5,000 people.
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Franklin D. Roosevelt is inaugurated to his 2nd term as president and launches the third New Deal.
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Germany invades Poland, which begins WWII. The great depression end over the next few years as the US builds up their armed forces.
