History Timeline 1929-1949

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    1929-1949

  • In this year, President Hoover was elected President of the United States.

  • Sound arrived in American Hollywood movies in this year.

  • Between 1929 and 1932, about 110,000 American businesses closed down

    Between 1929 and 1932, about 110,000 American businesses closed down

  • The Wall Street crash happened

    The Wall Street crash happened

  • In this year, a rally of unemployed Americans workers and under-paid employed workers rioted in New York.

  • During Hoover's Presidency, government passed the Hawley-Smoot Act

  • The Reconstruction Finance Corporation was set up by the Hoover administration.

  • During Hoover's Presidency, the American government provided $423 million for a building program

  • 14 million Americans unemployed by this point

  • An American magazine called New Republic published an article that said how in 1932, 100 Americans a day were eating out of garbage dumps to service.

  • According to The Lean Years, by 1932, organised looting of food was a nationwide phenomenon.

  • According to an article in the New York Post, there was a family in Georgia with a six-year-old boy who had no food for three days in a row.

  • In this year, the Bonus March took place.

  • In this year, President Hoover fought against Roosevelt to try and get re-elected.

  • In this year, the Democrats published a cartoon that mocked Hoover's failure to deal with effects of the Depression.

  • In this year, Roosevelt shook hands with a miner in West Virginia.

  • From 1933-1934, four million Americans were given jobs by the CWA

  • American farmers' incomes doubled in these six years 1933-1939

  • In these years, nearly 3 million Americans were given jobs by the CCC 1933-1942

  • From 1933-1934, four million Americans were given jobs by the CWA.

  • A cartoon was published titled 'Priming the Pump' that criticized the success of FDR's New Deal.

  • A woman, Francis Perkins, became the first woman to reach such a high level in American politics 1933-1935

  • FDR made his inaugural speech as President of the United States.

    FDR made his inaugural speech as President of the United States.

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    The famous "100 Days" took place in these four months, during 1933.

  • By this year, Huey Long (initially supported the New Deal) started saying the New Deal was not doing enough.

  • The Indian Registration Act was passed.

  • From 1935 to 1937, the Second New Deal was introduced.The WPA was set up

  • The WPA was set up

  • The Wagner Act was passed.

  • Roosevelt set up the Resettlement Administration

  • Huey Long was assassinated by one of his opponents.

  • The Supreme Court ruled that the NIRA was unconstitutional

  • By 1935, about 30% of Black Americans were living on relief.

  • The Social Security Act was passed

  • Many Americans living in Oklahoma and Arkansas migrated to California in hope of work and land with food.

  • FDR asked Congress to give him the power to appoint six new judges in the Supreme Court.

  • Roosevelt faced his second presidential election campaign.

  • Roosevelt was re-elected as American's President.

  • The Farm Security Administration replaced the Re-Settlement Administration.

  • The Supreme Court judged the Wagner Act and the Social Security Act to be constitutional

  • The average wage American women received in this year was half that of American men.

  • The 'Memorial Day Massacre' took place in Chicago.

  • Father Coughlin, (initially praising FDR's New Deal but then changed his mind), lost his audience by 1940.

  • The Supreme Court ruled that the NIRA was unconstitutional.

  • The 1940 census showed that only 1/20 Black Americans had a desk job, compared with 1/3 white Americans.

  • The USA entered WWII

  • Unemployment dropped more as a result of WWII than it did as a result of FDR's New Deal

  • German forces leave Greece

  • The USA & the USSR emerged from WWII as the two superpowers of the world

  • In Bulgaria, communists executed the leaders of other parties

  • Yalta Conference

  • President Roosevelt died

  • America elected a new President (President Truman)

  • Hitler Defeated

  • The USSR is forced to admit that their Berlin Blockade has failed

  • Half way through the Potsdam Conference, Winston Churchill learned that he had lost the general election and so was replaced by Clement Attlee

  • Potsdam Conference

  • In this conference, President Truman threatened Stalin by telling him that America had produced a new weapon of mass destruction

  • The USA successfully tests is first atomic bomb

  • Stalin disagreed over what to do about Germany

  • Stalin disagreed over Soviet policy in Eastern Europe

  • Stalin wanted the USSR to have more reparations than what Truman was happy to give him.

  • The USA detonates its first atomic bomb in Hiroshima

  • Stalin tightened his control over Eastern Europe

  • Britain, France and America combined their three zones to make one 'western' zone in Germany

  • Communists in Hungary imprisoned opposition leaders

  • The non-communist leader of Poland was forced into exile

  • Stalin sets up Cominform

  • Stalin forbade the communist countries Eastern Europe from accepting Marshall's offer of economic aid.

  • President Truman helped the British fight the communists in Greece by giving British troops money to keep fighting.

  • The Truman Doctrine is announced to the world

  • Marshall Aid is given to Western Europe

  • Communists in Czechoslovakia made non-communist parties illegal

  • In this year, there were signs that west Germany's economy was recovering as Britain, France and America reformed the currency.

  • The USSR blockades Berlin

  • America's Berlin Airlift succeeds in ending the USSR's blockade of Berlin

  • America sets up NATO

  • The communists lost the Greek Civil War to the royalists (supported by Britain and America).

  • The USSR sets up the Warsaw Pact