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The Great Depression
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Stock market crash
when people (more specifically business owners and investors) were buying and selling stocks in order to profit off of them, this caused a lot of national and personal debt, businesses closed and people to become unemployed. -
The Dustbowl
The Dust bowl was a large drought in the southern region of the U.S, which consumed of droughts and dust storms. This caused a large number of livestock and crops to be killed throughout the entire region. -
Hoovers Policies
Hoovers policies were created in order to create foreign policy, domestic programs, and despair and protest. -
Food riots and banks collapse
Food riots erupted as people continued to struggle for food, people would often smash windows of grocery stores, rob markets, and steal crops if possible. Then later that year, the largest banks in the U.S. started to fail, this brought up the income tax by 52% and when the bank had collapsed it had more than $200 deposits. -
Election of Franklin D. Roosevelt
Roosevelt first established the reconstruction finance corporation, then he signed the revenue act of 1832, after he gave his “New deal” speech to the public for economic recovery all within his first year of presidency. -
FDR's First onehundred days
FDR begins his “first hundred days” in office and 15 laws were introduced, then he closes all banks for a “bank holiday”, he also created the emergency banking act, brought the prohibition era to an end, lastly, 4 million jobs were created all within the first year. -
The New Deal
The New Deal created a sense of security, instill confidence within the federal banks, employed people, protected banking interests, made the business system work in productive ways, and created relief, recovery, and reform. -
Creation of the works progress administration
1- FDR created the WPA with an executive order as apart of his new deal, to get America out of the Great depression. -
Economic Growth
The economy started growing, bringing the U.S out of the Great Depression, but unemployment rates were still extremely high. -
Defence budget increased
As the war went on, the defense budget was increased by FDR as well as the top income to 81%, at the time the unemployment rate was 14.6% -
The election of 1940
(pre-war) Roosevelt stated that “your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars” to the American people, this created a sense of safety and security. However, Republicans were against Roosevelt going against the two-term tradition. In the end, Roosevelt won. -
Hitler Invasion of poland
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Pearl Harbor
An atomic bomb was dropped in Hiroshima and USA’s official entering into WW2, The Japanese did this because they were bombing European countries up until their supply got cut, this greatly effected their economy and they wanted to prove themselves as a strong country so they bombed the U.S. -
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World War 2
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Mass murder at Auschwitz
The reason for the camp being established is because local prisons start to ger fill and ghettos were not convenient for the Nazis. Unfortunately, it was easier to “mass kill” people one is considered one of the largest death camps in history, and camp is a “symbol of terror”. -
Japanese American internment
This sparked constitutional and political debate, because FDR make all Japanese Americans stay in camps on the west side of the U.S for “the safety of America”, this was a complete violation of their amendments and is still a controversial topic today. -
Battle of Midway
U.S and Japanese naval forces battled for five whole days in the middle of the Pacific Ocean causing a changed course of the war in the pacific. -
D-Day
The U.S., UK and Canada generated the fight against the Germans. This was a great victory in Normandy. This fight gave amazing hopes to Allies. It also foreshadowed Hitlers end to his empire. -
Warsaw Ghetto Uprising
This was an act of Jewish resistance which opposed Germanys final effort to transport the remaining Jews/Ghetto populations to extermination. -
Allied victory in North Africa
Allies wanted to start recovering territories conquered by Hitler and by Northern Africa. Later, the USSR, U.S., and UK. planned the invasion would cause allied forced to continue by recovering the French government in the north and eventually cease the nazi power. -
Atomic Bombs and Japan Surrender
After the bombing, first in Hiroshima aug 6th and then in Nagasaki in aug 9th. Japan had no choice but to surrender. The U.S decided that the quickest way to end war was through atomic bombs. The Japanese did not surrender until the second bomb in Nagasaki was dropped. The Japanese had to accept the Allies terms. -
Yalta Conference
The purpose of the Yalta was to discuss the re-establishment of the nations of war-torn in Europe. -
Auschwitz Liberation
The soviet forces marched into Poland and got to Auschwitz. and other concentration camps and liberated over 7000 prisoners. Their march meant breakthrough of another powerful German territory which further meant the end of war. However, many of the survivors were ill or dying.