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The Great Depression.

  • Hoover

    Herbert Hoover elected to presidential office.
  • Black Tuesday

    After a huge plunge in prices, stock brokers sell huge amounts of stock and crashes the Wall Street Stock Market.
  • Dust Bowl

    After years of over croping and plowing the Great plains, a drought causes massive dust storms, known as the Dust Bowl.
  • F.D.R.

    F.D.R. defeats Herbert Hoover for the 1932 presidential election. And begins the First 100 Days Plan.
  • Banking Act of 1933

    F.D.R. sets up a four day bank holiday, shuting down all banks in the U.S. to meet with congress and create the Emergency Banking Act of 1933.
  • W.P.A.

    W.P.A.
    The WPA is founded and helps find work for unemployed workers all over the U.S.
  • Social Security

    Social Security
    The Social Security Act of 1935 is signed and a stable pension plan is set up for all American Citizens.
  • End of the Dust Bowl

    End of the Dust Bowl
    Roosevelt sets up the Shelterbelt Project, which sets up soil erosion plants all over the Great Plains, and slowly stops the Dust Bowl.
  • F.D.R. Reelected

    F.D.R. Reelected
    F.D.R. is reelected after defeating Alfred Landon for the 1938 presidential election.
  • WW 2

    WW 2
    After a Japan bombs the naval base at Pear Harbor, Roosevelt signs a declaration of war against the Axis Powers, and enters the war on side of the Allies.