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Great Depression
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Stock Market Crash
The stock market had a sharp fall on Black Thursday, the date provided, the first day of the stock market crash of 1929. -
Dust Bowl Began
Droughts and dust storms became prevalent, greatly affecting agriculture and the environment. -
Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act
In an effort to businesses and agriculturalists, Hoover signed this act which raised taxes on imports in the hopes of reducing foreign competition. -
Food Riots Began
As people struggled to find food with the depleting economic state of the country, riots started to occur where people would fight over the available rations of grocery markets and stores. -
Banking Panics Began
Due to the depression, the massive amount of debt the nation had garnered and assets lost to the stock market crash grew to be too grand for banks to handle, closing down across the country as a result. -
Reconstruction Finance Corporation Created
Congress created the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to further prevent failures in financial institutions by giving states sums of money. -
President Roosevelt Elected
During his campaign, he brought hope to the nation during a time of great tragedy with his promises of reform and change. -
Hitler Appointed Chancellor
Adolf Hitler becomes the chancellor of Germany, becoming the head of the country. -
New Deal Enacted
As a result of the of election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as the President of the United States, the New Deal was enacted. It was a series of reforms and programs that aimed to better the United States standing as a country. -
Spending Cut for New Deal Programs
In an effort to manage and relief the debt of the United States, President Roosevelt cut back on the spending of the New Deal programs; however, this pushed the economy back into a depression, but soon the economy began the grow. -
World War II Begins
Germany invades Poland, igniting Britain and France to declare war on Germany to protect their ally. -
Defense Budget Increased
President Roosevelt increased the defense budget of the United States as the war continued. -
Zoot Suit Riots
A series of events where Mexican Americans fought against whites in the streets of California because of the resentment towards the influx of Mexican immigrants into the country. -
Operation Barbarossa Began
Nazi Germany invades the Soviet Union. -
Pearl Harbor
The Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor American naval base in Honolulu, Hawaii, uniting the United States to agree to join the world war the following day. -
United States Joins the War
The United States joins the world war after the attack on Pearl Harbor. -
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World War II
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Japanese Internment Camps
As a result of the country's fear of Japan sending spies to the United States, over 100,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast were ordered to leave their homes to reside in the barracks of internment camps. -
Wannsee Conference
In a discussion between high-ranking Nazi officials, the approval of the mass extermination of Jews across the European continent is confirmed. -
Battle of Stalingrad Began
A massive battle between the Soviet Union and Nazi Germany occurred in Stalingrad in Southern Russia where Germany lost. -
Race Riots
In New York and Detroit, race riots began to surge as resentment against African Americans moving to that part of the country in search of opportunity. -
D-Day Invasion of Normandy, France
It is considered the largest seaborne invasion in military history from the armies of the Allied Forces. -
Battle of Leyte Gulf
This battle over the Philippines was the first time the Japanese used kamikaze pilots to make suicide attacks on U.S. ships; however, the United States eventually overcame Japan and claimed the Philippines. -
Death of President Roosevelt
While resting in his vacation home in Georgia, President Roosevelt passed away, leaving Harry S. Truman to take his place. -
Bombing of Hiroshima
This is the first bombing of Japan using the Atom Bomb developed by Robert Oppenheimer. -
Bombing of Nagasaki
This was the second bombing of Japan by the United States. -
Japanese Surrender
Japan surrenders to the Allied Powers.