United States Timeline: The Great Depression

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    United States Timeline: The Great Depression

  • U.S. Congress reintroduces the draft

    U.S. Congress reintroduces the draft

    U.S. Congress reintroduces the first peacetime conscription draft in anticapation of a possible American involvement in WWll.
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt in elected to his third therm as President of the United States.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt in elected to his third therm as President of the United States.

    Franklin D. Roosevelt ran for his third term which was a major issue. America felt that a change in the president dureing the great depression would be a mistake.
  • Lend-Lease Act

    Lend-Lease Act

    The lend-lease stopped tradeing between U.K., Soviet Union, China, Free france, and other allied nations ended americas nueturality.
  • RKO Pictures releases Citizen Kane

    RKO Pictures releases Citizen Kane

    American drama film that won adademy awards in 9 catagories.
  • Manhattan Project Begins

    Manhattan Project Begins

    Was a research and development program by the U.S., U.K., and Canada that produced the first A-Bomb.
  • Mount Rushmore is completed

    Mount Rushmore is completed

    4 of the counties greatest Presidents are choosen to go on the side of Mount Rushmore.
  • Japanese Attack on Peral Harbor

    Japanese Attack on Peral Harbor

    Japanese launch a suprise attack on Pearl Harbor for planning to stop the Imperial Japanese Navy.
  • Executive order 9066 is signed ordering Japanese Americans to be held in relocation camps

    Executive order 9066 is signed ordering Japanese Americans to be held in relocation camps

    Authorizing the Secratery of War to prescribe certain areas as military zones to relocate Japanese Americans.
  • Battle of Midway

    Battle of Midway

    Japs saught to elimanate the U.S. as a strategic power in the Pacific.
  • Detroit, Michigan Race Riots

    Detroit, Michigan Race Riots

    Fights that broke out between african americans and whites.
  • D-Day (operation Over-Lord

    D-Day (operation Over-Lord

    Battle fought on the beaches of normandy. Over 9000 troops died on doomsday, the surviveing killed hitler later.
  • G.I. Bill of Rights signed into law

    G.I. Bill of Rights signed into law

    Served to change the social and economic lanscape of the united states.
  • Harry S. Truman becomes President

    Harry S. Truman becomes President

    Under Truman, the U.S succesfully concluded world war II
  • Germany Surrenders

    Germany Surrenders

    ended the european conflict of WWII
  • Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    Bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki

    First dropped Atomic bomb, Japan surrenders
  • First of meeting of the United Nations General Assembly

    First of meeting of the United Nations General Assembly

    one of the six principal organs of the united states
  • National Basketball Association of America is founded

    National Basketball Association of America is founded

    Men's professional league in North America
  • Jackie Robinson debuts at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers

    Jackie Robinson debuts at first base for the Brooklyn Dodgers

    First African to play a major league game, Jackie Robinson did great on first base at his debut
  • Marshall Plan

    Marshall Plan

    An act to help restore Europes economy
  • President Truman is re-elected

    President Truman is re-elected

    Truman was expected to lose but comes from behind and wins the election.
  • NATO is formed

    NATO is formed

    NATO is a partnership for peace between countries.