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Benito Mussolini forms his infamous fascist party
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The Wall Street Crash of 1929
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Hitler gets appointed as chancellor of Germany by President Paul von Hindenburg
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt first takes office as the 32nd president of the United States
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The Social Security Act was part of the New Deal which gave social insurance to everyone and insured a steady income after retirement
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FDR gets elected again in 1937
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The Fair Labor Standards Act was part of the New Deal, and it established a limit on work hours and a minimum wage
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Germany takes france in the spring of 1940
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The persecution of Jews and other minorities begins
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FDR takes office yet again for his third term
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The Nazi Germans invade the Soviet Union
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The Japanese bomb Pearl Harbor killing nearly 2,000 Americans
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It was a way to assign Navajo words to military tactics in a code using the language
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Invasion of Normandy by the Allies
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The Supreme Court upheld the arrest of Fred Korematsu after he refused to be relocated
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FDR takes office for a fourth and final time in 1945 before being replaced by Harry S. Truman after his death
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Harry S Truman takes office after FDR's untimely death
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Marked the end of WWII after Germany's surrender
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The bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the Americans, resulting in thousands of Japanese deaths