Nation of Nations 3/e Davidson, Gienapp, Heyrman, Lytle, and Stoff
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KEY EVENTS

1926 Miami real estate bust: hurricane devastates southern Florida and land prices plummet

1928 Great Bull Market begins to peak: stocks reach historic highs with speculative investment

1929 Herbert Hoover inaugurated: after defeating Democrat Al Smith of New York

Stock market crash: after a record climb, stock market plunges

Federal Farm Board created: Congress authorizes federal help for farmers

1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff raise rates: tariffs increased to protect U. S. from growing global depression

1931 Repatriation of Mexicans: federal government orders return of Mexican laborers to Mexico

Scottsboro boys arrested: arrest of 9 young African-Americans leads to their unjust conviction for rape

New York establishes Temporary Emergency Relief Administration: first state relief agency

1932 Glass-Steagall Banking Act: to guard against another Great Crash, Congress separates investment from commercial banking

Reconstruction Finance Corporation established: Congress creates federal agency to aid ailing banks

Emergency Relief and Construction Act: Hoover authorizes federal funds for public works projects

Farm Holiday Association formed: Milo Reno forms organization farm recovery

Bonus Army marches on Washington, D.C.: World War I veterans march for payment of war bonuses

Franklin Roosevelt elected president: defeats Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover

1933 Legion of Decency formed: Catholic group monitors films

Motion Picture Production Code: to avoid censorship movie makers adopt a code of ethics

"black blizzards" begin to create Dust Bowl: giant dust storms

1934 Southern Tenant Farmers Union organized: tenant farmers unite

1935 Becky Sharp, first color film

Communist Party announces popular front: plan to join with capitalist democracies to fight fascism in Spain

1936 Margaret Mitchell's Gone With the Wind published: epic novel of the Civil War

1938 Orson Welles’ radio broadcast of Invasion from Mars: many Americans panic

1939 John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath :published: chronicle of dispossessed American migrants

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