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IMAGE
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DESCRIPTION
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1898
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Leo Szilard (scientist who worked on creating nuclear weapons for WWII) born
Image found at Leo Szilard Online: http://www.dannen.com/szilard.html |
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July 18, 1913
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Bette VanFleet Levine (Pami's Grandmother) born in Hunterdon County, New Jersey
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June 24, 1918
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Rhoda Seretean Naidus (Ben's Grandmother) born in New York City
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January 31, 1923
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Angelina Josiphine Depew (Daniel's Grandmother) born in San Jose, California
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1929
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Image from Herbert Hoover page at POTUS http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/hchoover.html |
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1930
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- Banks lost $853,000,000 in deposits by going out of business
- 256 banks failed
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1931
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- 2,294 banks failed and lost $1,700,000 in deposits
- Laws passed in some cities against hiring married women or men as city workers
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1932
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Image from FDR page of POTUS http://www.ipl.org/ref/POTUS/fdroosevelt.html |
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March 1933
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- Hundred Days
- The New Deal instituted by FDR
- Public Works Administration (PWA) established
- National Recovery Act (NRA) established
- Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA) created
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1934
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- The Dust Bowl
- Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) established
Images from the Dust Bowl at http://www.usd.edu/anth/epa/dust.html
Part of the Northern Great Plains Environmental website |
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1935
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- Second Hundred Days
- Works Progress Administration established
- Social Security Act of 1935 established
- NRA declared unconstitutional and abolished by U.S. Supreme Court
- National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA) declared unconstitutional and abolished
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1936
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- FDR Reelected
- AAA declared unconstitutional and abolished
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1937
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Labor laws created ensuring a 40-hour work week and minimum wages for many industries
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1939
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WWII begins
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1945
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- Germany surrendered
- Trinity Test of nuclear weapons in New Mexico Desert
- Oak Ridge petition against use of nuclear weapons (to scientists)
- Szilard Petition to against use of nuclear weapons (to the President)
- Recommendations for immediate use of nuclear weapons
- The Enola Gay dropped an atomic bomb (a.k.a. "Little Boy") on Hiroshima (first use of nuclear weapons in war) on August 6
- "Fat Man" dropped on Nagasaki on August 9
- Japan surrendered on August 14
Enola Gay on the Tarmac found at http://www.glue.umd.edu/~enola/gall/Enola_Gay_on_tarmac.GIF Part of the Enola Gay Perspectives web site
Little Boy and Fat Man image found at http://www.enviroweb.org/enviroissues/nuketesting/hew/Usa/Med/Lbfm.html
Dome image from http://www.dannen.com/decision/index.html |
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