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Black Tuesday-Stock Market Crash
Post war ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash. The plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American Depression in the Nations history. -
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Planet Pluto is Discovered
Nineth Planet in solar system,discovered by Astronomer Clyde Tombaugh. -
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Hawley-Smoot Tariff raised tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods. thus reduced American trade by 50%. -
Run On the Banks
Panic at banks ensured stock market crash. People saw money coming out of bank, which engaged bank failure throughout the country. -
Star-Spangled Banner becomes the national anthem
Star-Spangled Banner was a poem written by Francis Scott Key in 1814. It was later declared the National Anthem of the United States by Congressional Resolution -
Empire state building is completed
The Empire state building 102-storey skyscraper located in midtown Manhattan,New York. At the time it was considered the worlds tallest buillding at the time. -
Charles Linberg baby Kidnapped
Charles Linbergs baby was kidnapped and later found dead. One of the most highly publisized crimes. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt elected President
Defeated Herbert Hoover to become 32nd President of the USA, went for 4 terms. -
alNew CDe
Series of economic programs inacted in USA between 1933-1936, response to Great Depression focused on Relief, Recovery, Reform. -
21st Amendment
21st Amendment repeaked 18th amendment being end to prohibition -
(SEC) Established
Established FDR in 1934 as a regulatory agency that followed the crash in 1919. Given power to license , regulate stock exchanges the companies who traded on them , and to brokers and dealers who conducted the trade. -
Social Security Act
Drafted during term by President committe. -
Hindenberg crashes
IT was a large German Commercial Passenger ship -
Hoover Dam completed
The people who constructed the Hoover had six years to finish and they finished it in four. supplied powrer to several cities -
Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at Berlin Olympics
Jesse won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics suprising the Germans and Hitler. It showed the Germans They wern't so superior. -
Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchel Published
This Book was wrote explaining what her life as a teenager was like. -
Amelia Earhart disappears
First women to fly across the Atlantic ocean solo. -
War of the Worlds Broadcast
Broadcast about how exterestial being landing on Earth to take Earth over. -
Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbabeck published
Sold about 10,000 copies in response to the Novel in one night. -
The Wizard of Oz realeased
One of the best known black and white films of all times -
Germany invades Poland
The Germans Marked the beggining of WW2 when they invaded Poland . -
FDR Re-elected
FDR Was re-elected because he promised to the peolple he would keep maintaining America
