The Great Depression
The Great Depression
(1929-1941)
The 1930s Project
The Causes of the Great Depression
The Dust Bowl
The Scottsboro Trials
(1931-1937)
The Bomus Army
(1932)
The Lindbergh Kidnapping
(1932)
The Franklin D. Roosevelt Library and Museum
The Fireside Chats
(listen to them)
New Deal Network
The Civilian Conservation Corps
(created by the Unemployment Relief Act, March 31, 1933)
The Tennessee Valley Authority
(created on May 18, 1933)
Bonnie and Clyde
(captured in 1934)
John Dillinger
(1903-1934)
Committee for Industrial Organization
(formed in 1935)
The Works Progress Administration
(created on May 6, 1935)
The National Labor Relations Board
(created as a result of the National Labor Realtions (Wagner) Act, July 5, 1935)
Social Security
(created by the Social Security Act, August 14, 1935)
The Hatch Act
(1939)
The Atlantic Charter
(August 1941)