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Fraser Spadafore 1930's Timeline
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Herbert Hoover takes office
Hoover was the 31st president of the United States. Before he became president he was a professional mining engineer and an author. He promoted economic modernization. -
The Dust Bowl
A period of time when there were severe dust often and caused a lot of damage. This was from 1930 to 1936 and in some places till 1940. This was caused by a huge drought and decades of farming doing no crop rotation or other things to prevent erosions. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
It was an independnent agency of the United States governement chartered during the administration of Herbert Hoover. This was modeled after the War Finanace Corporation of World War One. -
The Bonus Army
They were an asseblance of some 43,000 marchers. These people were World War 1 veterans, their families and affiliated groups who protested in Washington D.C in the spring and summer. These people were promised a bonus after the war and wanted it early. -
The New Deal
Many problems were happening in the United States during the time period of 1933-1936. This was passed by the U.S congress druing FDR's first term. These were responses to the Great Depression, and focused on the 3 R's. Relief, Recovery and Reform. -
Hitler takes power
Hitler was an Austrian born, German politition. He was a World War one veteran. After he took power, within three years German forces and their European allies had most of Europe controlled. -
FDR elected
FDR was elected as a republican canidate and won the vote for that easily. In his speech when he was elected he said "Throughout the nation men and women, forgotten in the political philosophy of the Government, look to us here for guidance and for more equitable opportunity to share in the distribution of national wealth... I pledge you, I pledge myself to a new deal for the American people... This is more than a political campaign. It is a call to arms" -
Father Coughlin attacks FDR, Jews
At first father was a supporter of FDR, and his New Deal proposal.Later, he became a harsh critic of Roosevelt as too friendly to bankers. After he used hiis radio program to issue antisemitic commentary. Then to rationalize some of the policies of HItler and Mussolini. Many American bishops such as Vatican wanted him to stop. He was eventually by his superiors. -
Indian Reorganization Act
The Act was a United States federal legislation which secured certain rights to Native Americans, which included Alaska Natives. This included a reversal of Dawes Act's privatization of common holdings of American Indians and a return to local self government on a tribal base. -
Social Security
Social Security was apart of FDR's New Deal. It gave people money after they retired but had to be a certain age. -
Social Security Act
This act was drafted during FDR's first term, it was passed by the President's Committee on Economic Security under Frances Perkinds and passed my Congress. Being apart of the New Deal. This was an attempt to limit what were seen as dangers in the American life, such as old age, poverty,unemployment and the burdens of widows and fatherless children. -
GM Sit-Down strike
This changed the United Automobile Workers majorly, a collection of isolated locals on the fringes of the industry into a major labor union. Which led to the unionization of the domestic United States automobile industry, -
Rape of Nanking
This was a huge murder and rape that ocurred for the six week period following the Japanese capture of the city Nanjing. The former capital of China. During this hundreds of thousands of Chinese civilivans and disarmed soldiers were murdered (between 20,000-80,000) many women were raped also by soldiers of the Imperial Japanese Army. -
The Grapes of the Wrath
This is a novel published in 1939 and written by John Steinbeck, which was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1940. Then in 1962 it won the Nobel Prize for Literature. Written during the Great Depression, the novel focuses on the Joads a poor family of sharecroppers driven from the Dust Bowl in their home in Oklahoma. Talks about economic hardship,changes in financial and agriculture industries. -
Neatrality Acts
The Neutrality Acts were laws taht were passed by the U.S Congress in the 1930's in response to the growing turmoil in Europe and Asia that eventually led to World War II. They were spurred by the growth in isolationism and non-interventionism. In the United States they did this because of their costly involving in World War One. Also didnt want to be in foreign conflicts again.
