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Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash. The plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history.
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Clyde Tombaugh had been helping in the search for planets under Percival Cowell. Every week, he took photos of the sky to look for differences in the background, and eventually found Pluto.
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An act sponsored by Senator Reed Smoot and Representative Willis C. Hawley that raised the tariffs on all goods, eventually causing other nations to do the same.
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Many people in panic due to the stock market crash rushed to banks and attempted to withdraw their money.
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President Herbert Hoover signed an act that had officially made the Star-Spangled Banner the national anthem of the United States.
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During the Depression, this 102 story skyscaper was built as the tallest building of the time.
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The son of the famous aviator and Anne Morrow Lindbergh was kidnapped from their home and held for a ransom. Later on, it was discovered that the baby had been dead for a few months.
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During the Depression, FDR was elected the 32nd president of the United States.
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A series of economic programs enacted in response to the Great Depression by FDR during his presidency.
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Amendment that repealed the 18th amendment, prohibition of alcohol.
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Federal agency that holds responsibility for enforcing federal security laws and regulating the nations stock and other industry.
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Act limiting dangers of modern America like old age, poverty, and unemployment.
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Gone with the wind is a story that takes place in georiga durnig the civil war and reconstruction. It shows the experieces of a Scarlett O' Hara.
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Jessie Owens had won four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in front of Hitler himself.
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A dam that was built in the Black Canyon of the Colordao River. It was constructed during the Great Depression.
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Re-elected in a complete win over a Republican Kansas governor, winning by over 60%.
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German passenger airship that lit on fire and was destroyed while docking with mooring mast at lakehurst naval airstation. The cause of the fire on the Hidenburg is still unknow to this day.
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Amelia Earhart goes for the first woman around the world as a pilot. During her flight she went missing near the island of Howland, an island in the pacific.
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American radio drama that was a halloween episode of a series known as The Mercury Theatre on the air.
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During the great Depresssion, focuses on Joads, which are a poor family of tenant farmers which are driven from there home in Oklahoma.
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Produced by metro Goldwin. It was a fantasy adventure full of special effects, and technicolor that modeled the time period
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The invasion of of German troops into Poland. It marked the beginning of WW II in european contries.
