Timeline: 1929 - 1945
1929: Stock Market crash (Black Tuesday)
1930: 3.2 million people unemployed
1931: Congressman Wright Patman introduces legislation authorizing "bonus" funds to WWI veterans
Japan invades Manchuria
1932: Congress establishes the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (R.F.C)
1933: Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
Japan and Germany withdraws from the League of Nations
1934: 3-day dust storm blows 350 million tons of soil off the West terrain
1935: FDR signs legislation creating the Works Progress Administration
Germany regains possession of the Saar
Italy invades Ethiopia
1936: The "Migrant Mother Series" taken by Dorothea Lange is published in the San Francisco News
Rhineland is occupied by Germany
1937: United Automobile Workers strike at the General Motors Plant in Flint, Michigan turns violent
Japan invades China
1938: FDR asks Congress to authorize 3.75 billion in federal spending to stimulate the economy
Kristallnacht
1939: Germany invades Poland; Beginning of World War II
The United States obecomes a neutral country
South Africa and Canada declare war on Germany
German army reaches Warsaw suburbs
A peace treaty is signed between Japan and Russia
Soviet Union invades Estonia
Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations
1940: FDR is elected to a third term
Construction begins in Auschwitz for concentration camps
Germany invades Norway, Denmark, France, and Belgium
Iceland becomes occupied by Britain
Belgium surrenders
Italy declares war on France and Britain
An armistice is signed between France and Italy
1941: A trade agreement is signed between Germany and Turkey
The United States declares war on Japan
Italy and Germany declare war on the United States
1943: Italy surrenders to the Allies
Italy declares war on Germany
1944: D-Day (June 6)
FDR wins his 4th election
1945: The United States lands on Iwo Jima Island
Adolf Hitler commits suicide (April 30)
V-E Day (May 8)
United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
Japan surrenders; End of World War II
1930: 3.2 million people unemployed
1931: Congressman Wright Patman introduces legislation authorizing "bonus" funds to WWI veterans
Japan invades Manchuria
1932: Congress establishes the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (R.F.C)
1933: Franklin Delano Roosevelt is inaugurated
Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
Japan and Germany withdraws from the League of Nations
1934: 3-day dust storm blows 350 million tons of soil off the West terrain
1935: FDR signs legislation creating the Works Progress Administration
Germany regains possession of the Saar
Italy invades Ethiopia
1936: The "Migrant Mother Series" taken by Dorothea Lange is published in the San Francisco News
Rhineland is occupied by Germany
1937: United Automobile Workers strike at the General Motors Plant in Flint, Michigan turns violent
Japan invades China
1938: FDR asks Congress to authorize 3.75 billion in federal spending to stimulate the economy
Kristallnacht
1939: Germany invades Poland; Beginning of World War II
The United States obecomes a neutral country
South Africa and Canada declare war on Germany
German army reaches Warsaw suburbs
A peace treaty is signed between Japan and Russia
Soviet Union invades Estonia
Soviet Union is expelled from the League of Nations
1940: FDR is elected to a third term
Construction begins in Auschwitz for concentration camps
Germany invades Norway, Denmark, France, and Belgium
Iceland becomes occupied by Britain
Belgium surrenders
Italy declares war on France and Britain
An armistice is signed between France and Italy
1941: A trade agreement is signed between Germany and Turkey
The United States declares war on Japan
Italy and Germany declare war on the United States
1943: Italy surrenders to the Allies
Italy declares war on Germany
1944: D-Day (June 6)
FDR wins his 4th election
1945: The United States lands on Iwo Jima Island
Adolf Hitler commits suicide (April 30)
V-E Day (May 8)
United States drops atomic bomb on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan
Japan surrenders; End of World War II