| Years | Events |
|---|---|
| 1929 | Stock Markety Crash Robert and Helen Lynd publish Middletown |
| 1930 | Midwestern drought begins Hawley-Smoot Tariff |
| 1931 | Great Britain abandons gold standard Hoover declares moratorium on Allied war debts Miners strike in Harlan County, Kentucky |
| 1932 | Reconstruction Finance Corporation Bonus Army marches on Washington Lindbergh kidnapping Revenue Act of 1933 Height of deportation of Mexican migrant workers Farm Holiday Association founded Strike at Ford’s River Rouge plant in Michigan Communist-led hunger marches |
| 1933 | Unemployment rises to highest level Banking crisis Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes president Birth rate drops to lowest level FDR’s first fireside chat Emergency Banking Act Glass-Steagall Act establishes FDIC Agricultural Adjustment Act National Industrial Recovery Act Tennessee Valley Authority Prohibition ends with repeal of 21st Amendment United States abandons the gold standard Townsend Clubs |
| 1934 | Securities and Exchange Commission Indian Reorganization Act Southern Tenant Farmers Union founded It Happened One Night wins Oscars Resettlement Administration Conservatives create American Liberty League Upton Sinclair loses California governor race |
| 1935 | National Union for Social Justice (Father Charles Coughlin) National Youth Administration Harlem Race Riot Resettlement Administration National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act Social Security Act Works Progress Administration Huey Long assassinated CIO formed |
| 1935-1939 | Communists at height of influence |
| 1936 | Student strike against War Margaret Mitchell’s Gone with the Wind Supreme Court finds Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional Black cabinet Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at Berlin Olympics Birth control legalized Roosevelt reelected Life magazine founded John Maynard Keynes publishes The General Theory |
| 1936-1939 | Spanish Civil War |
| 1937 |
Hindenberg crash Amelia Earhart disappears Sit-down strikes Memorial Day Massacre Supreme Court Reorganization fails National Housing Act |
| 1937-1938 | "Roosevelt Recession" |
| 1938 | Fair Labor Standards Act Temporary National Economic Committee established Munich Agreement |
| 1939 | John Steinbeck’s Grapes of Wrath Federal Theater Project terminated Nazi-Soviet pact Executive Reorganization Act Marion Anderson sings at Lincoln Memorial World War II breaks out in Europe |
| 1940 | Conscription reinstated American First movement Roosevelt wins reelection against Wendell Wilkie |
| 1941 | Lend-Lease Act passed Roosevelt declares Four Freedoms Fair Employment Practices Commission Atlantic Charter signed Japanese attack Pearl Harbor |
| 1942 | Civil rights activists establish Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) U.S. Navy wins Battle of Midway Roosevelt authorized Manhattan Project U.S. forces invade North Africa Roosevelt authorizes internment of Japanese Americans Women recruited for war industries Revenue Act of 1942 Office of Price Adminstration created News of Holocaust reaches U.S. Temporary Mexican workers allowed entrance into US |
| 1943 | Allies launch invasion of Italy Smith-Connally Act passed Race riot breaks out in Detroit "Zoot-Suit" riot in Los Angeles Chinese Exclusion Act repealed Fascism falls in Italy Teheran Conference |
| 1944 | Gunnar Myrdal publishes An American Dilemma D-Day GI Bill of Rights Roosevelt wins reelection against Thomas Dewey Demonstrators protest segregation in DC restaurant |
| 1945 | Roosevelt dies; Truman becomes president Germany surrenders Yalta and Postdam Conferences United Nation founded Atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki Japan surrenders |
| 1946 | Atomic Energy Commission established Employment Act of 1946 passed Churchill’s Iron Curtain speech Postwar inflation Severe labor unrest throughout US Republicans win control of Congress |
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