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The cartoon star Mickey Mouse appears on November 18th in Steamboat Willie, an animated 1928 short film produced by Walt Disney.
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The American Stock Market crashes signaling the start of The Great Depression.
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Hoover defeated the Democratic nominee, Governor Al Smith of New York.
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Period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the American and Canadian prairies during the 1930s.
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Shanty town built during the Great Depression by the homeless in the United States.
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Roosevelt defeats Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency.
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Series of programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the United States between 1933 and 1939.
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Raised federal income tax on higher income levels, by introducing the "Wealth Tax".
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Constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Roosevelt is elected to a second term as president, winning in a landslide over Republican Alf Landon.
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The vast majority of the world's countries, including all the great powers, eventually formed two opposing military alliances.
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The German-American Bund stages a huge rally of fascist sympathizers supporting what they call "True Americanism" in Madison Square Garden in New York.
