The Great Depression and the New Deal

By jawolfman98
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    Prohibition in the U.S.

  • Charles Lindbergh Pilots the First Solo Non-stop Transatlantic Flight

    The flight was from Roosevelt Field in Garden City on New York's Long Island to Le Bourget Field in Paris, France, a distance of nearly 3,600 statute miles. It demonstrated the speed and ease of air travel to the people of the time.

  • Saint Valentine's Day Massacre

    The murder of seven mob associates of the North Side Irish gang, led by Bugs Moran, by the South Side Italian gang, led by Al Capone, to take control of organized crime in Chicago. It showed the cruelty of Capone and that nobody would stand in his way.

  • Herbert Hoover Becomes President

    Promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic modernization." On poverty, Hoover said that "Given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation."

  • Wall Street Crash of 1929

    The most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States. It began the Great Depression.
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    The Great Depression

    A severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II. The Great Depression had devastating effects in countries rich and poor. Personal income, tax revenue, profits and prices dropped, while international trade plunged by more than 50%. Unemployment in the U.S. rose to 25%, and in some countries rose as high as 33%.

  • Al Capone Imprisoned

    Capone was sent to the Atlanta U.S. Penitentiary for tax evasion and moved to Alcatraz in 1934. Hi reign in Chicago was ended.

  • The Bonus March

    43,000 marchers—17,000 World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. The Bonus Army incident proved disastrous for Hoover's chances at re-election.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Becomes President

    Roosevelt denounced Hoover's failures to restore prosperity or even halt the downward slide, and he ridiculed Hoover's huge deficits. Roosevelt won the 1932 election in a landslide victory.

  • The First New Deal Begins

    The programs were in response to the Great Depression, and focused on relief, recovery, and reform.In the first hundred days of his presidency, Roosevelt met with congress every day to grant his requests and programs. He formed the Public Works Administration, Civilian Conservation Corps, National Recovery Administration, and more. The economy had hit bottom in March 1933 and then started to expand.

  • J. Edgar Hoover Founds the FBI

    Replaced the Bureau of Investigation (BOI) with the Federal Bureau of Investigation. J. Edgar Hoover became the first director of the FBI after serving as director of the BOI sice 1924. The FBI was instrumental in containing crime during Prohibition. Hoover is credited with building the FBI into a larger crime-fighting agency and with instituting a number of modernizations to police technology, such as a centralized fingerprint file and forensic laboratories.

  • The Second New Deal Begins

    Started in responce to the setbacks in the Court, a new scepticism in Congress, and the growing popular clamour for more dramatic action. it was wore liberal and more controversial than the "First New Deal." It created the Social Security Act, Works Progress Administration, and National Labor Relations Act.
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    World War II

    It involved the vast majority of the world's nations—including all of the great powers—eventually forming two opposing military alliances: the Allies and the Axis. It was the most widespread war in history, and directly involved more than 100 million people, from more than 30 different countries.

  • Attack on Pearl Harbor

    A surprise military strike conducted by the Imperial Japanese Navy against the United States naval base at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. The attack led to the United States' entry into World War II.

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt Dies

    FDR died of a stroke, and Vice president Harry S. Truman was sworn into office and tasked at ending the war.

  • Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima

    The first use of nuclear weapons in warfare. Besides the bombing of Nagasaki, it remains the only use of a nuclear weapon in warfare to date. About 90,000–166,000 were killed in Hiroshima. It was dropped after the Japanese government rejected the Potsdam ultimatum.