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Roosevelt defeats Hoover for presidency
Roosevelt and his running mate, U.S. House Speaker John N. Garner, received 57.4 percent of the popular vote. Hoover and his running mate, Vice President Charles Curtis, received 39.7 percent. -
Glass-Steagall Banking Reform Act
An act the U.S. Congress passed in 1933 as the Banking Act, which prohibited commercial banks from participating in the investment banking business. -
20th Amendment
The 20th amendment is a simple amendment that sets the dates at which federal (United States) government elected offices end. -
Emergency Banking Relief Act
The Emergency Banking Relief Act was an act allowing federal-approved banks which are financially secured by closing insolvent bank. -
Beer and Wine Revenue Act
The Beer–Wine Revenue Act was an amendment to the Volstead Act and was passed in March 1933. As this was still during the era of prohibition, it was the first relaxation of the prohibition laws since 1918. It was also a plank of the Democratic Party's platform of the 1932 election. This was one of FDR's reform movements for the Great Depression on March 22, 1933. -
Federal Securities Act
A federal piece of legislation enacted as a result of the market crash of 1929. The legislation had two main goals: (1) to ensure more transparency in financial statements so investors can make informed decisions about investments, and (2) to establish laws against misrepresentation and fraudulent activities in the securities markets. -
London Economic Conference
The London Economic Conference was a meeting of representatives of 66 nations from June 12 to July 27, 1933, at the Geological Museum in London. -
CWA established
A short-lived U.S. job creation program established by the New Deal during the Great Depression to rapidly create manual labor jobs for millions of unemployed workers. The jobs were merely temporary, for the duration of the hard winter of 1933–34. President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveiled the CWA on November 8, 1933 and put Harry L. Hopkins in charge of the short-term agency. Roosevelt was convinced that jobs were much better for everyone than cash handouts. -
21st Amendment
The 21st amendment , repealed the 18th amendment it allowed sale and consumtion of alchohol , ending prohibhition. -
Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act
Designed to lower the tariff, it aimed at both relief and recovery. -
Gold Reserve Act
The Gold Reserve Act of 1934 gave the government the power to peg the value of the dollar to gold and adjust it as it pleased. -
Frazier-Lemke Farm Bankruptcy Act
Act of Congress passed in the United States in 1934 that restricted the ability of banks to repossess farms. -
Indian Reorganization Act
Indian Reorganization Act, legislation passed in 1934 in the United States in an attempt to secure new rights for Native Americans on reservations. -
Public Utility Holding Company Act
An act of ederal legislation that allows the regulation of companies providing public utilities. -
Wagner Act
The Wagner Act of 1935 guarantees the right of workers to organize, and outlines the legal framework for labor union and management relations. -
Social Security Act
Legislation that established a national old-age pension system in the U.S. -
US Neutrality Act
Extended financial support for American allies and was a return to the isolationsim of the 1920s -
Fair Labor Standards Act
Federal legislation that protects workers from unfair labor practices such as unequal pay and excessive work hours. -
Munich Conference
Settlement reached by Germany, France, Britain, and Italy permitting German annexation of Czechoslovakia's Sudetenland. -
Nazi-Soviet Pact
On this day in 1939, Germany and the Soviet Union sign a non-aggression pact, stunning the world, given their diametrically opposed ideologies. -
WWII Begins
World War II began in 1939 as a conflict between Germany and the combined forces of France and Great Britain and eventually included most of the nations of the world before it ended in August 1945. It caused the greatest loss of life and material destruction of any war in history, killing 25 million military personnel and 30 million civilians. By the end of the war, the United States had become the most powerful nation in the world, the possessor and user of atomic weapons. -
Fall of France
The conquest of France by Germany in World War II in the spring of 1940. -
Havana Conference
The Havana Conference was a conference held in the Cuban capital of Havana in July 1940. In the first years of World War II, as Germany began to take over countries throughout Europe, many colonies in the New World found themselves orphaned, such as those owned by Netherlands, Denmark and France. At the conference the United States thus agreed to share with its neighbors the responsibility of protecting the Monroe Doctrine. -
Lend-Lease Act
The Lend-Lease Act of 1941 was legislation that allowed the neutral United States to provide direct military aid to the Allies. -
FEPC Established
The Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) implemented US Executive Order 8802, requiring that companies with government contracts not discriminate on the basis of race or religion. It was intended to help African Americans and other minorities obtain jobs in the homefront industry during World War II. -
CORE founded
An organization founded by James Leonard Farmer in 1942 to work for racial equality. -
Battle of the Coral Sea
A Japanese defeat in World War II (May 1942);
the first naval battle fought entirely by planes based on aircraft carriers. -
Battle of Midway
The Battle of Midway was a strong US victory which caused Japan's invasion fleet to return to its home port. -
Teheran Conference
The main outcome of the Tehran Conference was the commitment to the opening of a second front against Nazi Germany by the Western Allies. The conference also addressed relations between the Allies and Turkey and Iran, operations in Yugoslavia and against Japan as well as the envisaged post-war settlement. A separate protocol signed at the conference pledged the Big Three's recognition of Iran's independence. -
D-Day
The unnamed day on which an operation or offensive is to be launched. 2. The day on which the Allied forces invaded France during World War II. -
Battle of Marianas
Offensive launched by United States forces against Imperial Japanese forces in the Mariana Islands and Palau in the Pacific Ocean between June and November, 1944 during the Pacific War. The United States offensive, under the overall command of Chester Nimitz, followed the Gilbert and Marshall Islands campaign and was intended to neutralize Japanese bases in the central Pacific, support the Allied drive to retake the Philippines, and provide bases for a strategic bombing campaign against Japan. -
Battle of the Bulge
The Battle of the Bulge was a highly efficient, well coordinated, desperate counteroffensive German
attack through the weak bulging sector of the American lines at the Ardennes. The Germans had successfully conducted a massive offensive in this same area when it invaded France in 1940, but this late war counteroffensive by the Germans . -
Potsdam Conference
A conference held in Potsdam in the summer of 1945 where Roosevelt, Stalin, and Churchill drew up plans for the administration of Germany and Poland after World War II ended. -
Japan surrenders
On August 10, 1945, after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki and the Soviet declaration of war against Japan, Japanese emperor Hirohito issued a statement of surrender. President Harry S. Truman accepted Japan's surrender on August 15, 1945. The Japanese signed formal surrender documents at a ceremony on September 2, 1945, aboard the battleship USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay. It signified the ending of World War II.