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On Black Tuesday the stock market crash. This was the beginning of the Great Depression.
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The first food riot was on January 3, 1931 in England, Arkansas. Groups of people broke into grocery stores and stole food.
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Rooselvelt was elected for his first term when he beat Hoover in 1932.
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On January 30, 1933, Hitler was elected as Chancellor of Germany. This was the beginning of the Holocaust and World War ll.
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FDR created the Civilian Conservation Corps to promote environmental conservation and build good citizens through vigorous outdoor labor.
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FDR approved the US money no longer being backed by gold in June of 1933.
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Social Security, an insurance system to provide money for retirement, disabilities, and survivors' benefits, is created.
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The photo taken by Dorothea Lange of Florence Owens Thompson and three of her children was taken in March of 1936.
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20,000 people gathered in Madison Square Garden in New York City to protest for the rights of white Gentiles.
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The Grapes Of Wrath by John Steinbeck was about a family experiencing the hardships of the Great Depression.
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Hitler invades Poland and WWll begins.
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When Roosevelt won the election of 1940 against Wendell Willkie, the Great Depression was starting to wind down to an end.
