Major Events of Presidency:
- New Deal begins, 1933 legislation includes Emergency Banking Act, Economy Act, Civilian Conservation Corps, Agricultural Adjustment Act, Tennessee Valley Authority, National Industrial Recovery Act, Banking Act, Federal Emergency Relief Act, Homeowners' Refinancing Act, Civil Works Administration, and Federal Securities Act
- Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany
- United States establishes formal diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union
- United Stated officially abolishes gold standard
- 21st Amendment repeals 18th, prohibition ends
- Dr. Francis Townsend begins campaign for pensions for the elderly
- Southern Tenant Farmers Union organized
- New Deal Legislation in 1934 includes National Housing Act, Securities and Exchange Act, and Homeowners' Loan Act
- Conservatives create American Liberty League
- Huey Long establishes Share-Our-Wealth Society
- Labor militancy increases
- Indian Reorganization Act passed
- American Communist Party proclaims popular front
- Supreme Court invalidates National Recovery Administration
- Second New Deal legislation passed, includes Works Progress Administration, National Youth Administration, Social Security Act, National Labor Relations Act, Public Utilities Holding Company Act, Resettlement Administration, Rural Electrification Administration, and the Revenue Act
- Senate defeats World Court Treaty
- Neutrality Act passed
- Abyssinian Crisis occurs
- Father Charles Coughlin establishes the National Union for Social Justice
- John J. Lewis and his supporters break ties with AFL
- Huey Long Assassinated
- How to Win Friends and Influence People published by Dale Carnegie
- Margaret Mitchell publishes Gone with the Wind, an escapist novel
- Life magazine begins publication
- Second New Deal legislation in 1936 includes Soil Conservation and Domestic Allotment Act
- Spanish Civil War begins
- German troops reoccupy Rhineland
- Second Neutrality Act passed
- Supreme Court invalidates Agricultural Adjustment Act
- CIO established
- Sit-down strikes commence
- Legislation passed in 1937 includes Farm Security Administration and the National Housing Act
- U.S. Steel recognizes Steel Workers Organizing Committee
- Japan begins invasion of China
- Roosevelt gives "Quarantine" speech
- Japan attacks U.S. gunboat Panay
- Third Neutrality Act Passed
- "Court-packing plan" proposed by FDR
- Wagner Act validated by Supreme Court
- "Memorial Day Massacre" occurs in Chicago
- Executive reorganization plan proposed
- New Deal spending reduced
- Severe recession begins
- Major legislation of 1938 includes Second Agricultural Adjustment Act and Fair Labor Standards Act
- Germany annexes Austria
- Munich Conference
- Roosevelt proposes new spending measures
- Temporary National Economic Committee established
- Major legislation in 1939 includes Executive Reorganization Act
- Nazi-Soviet nonaggression pact signed
- Germany invades Czechoslovakia and Poland, beginning WWII
- Soviet Union invades Baltic Nations/Finland
- Grapes of Wrath published by John Steinbeck
- Nazi-Soviet Pact weakens American Communist Party
- Native Son published by Richard Wright
- For Whom the Bell Tolls published by Ernest Hemingway
- German Blitzkrieg conquers most of western Europe
- Germany signs Tripartite Pact with Italy and Japan
- America First Committee founded
- United States makes destroyers-for-bases deal with Britain
- Let Us Now Praise Famous Men published by James Agee and Walker Evans
- Lend-lease plan provides aid to Britain
- Germany invades Soviet Union
- Atlantic Charter signed
- Japan attacks Pearl Harbor
- United States declares war on Japan
- Germany declares war on U.S., U.S. declares war on Germany
- Fair Employment Practices Commission established
- Manhattan Project begins
- Japanese capture Philippines
- Battle of Midway
- North Africa campaign begins
- News of Holocaust reaches U.S.
- War Production Board created
- Japanese Americans interned
- Temporary Mexican workers allowed entry to U.S.
- Congress of Racial Equality founded
- Americans capture Guadalcanal
- Soviets defeat Germans at Stalingrad
- Allies launch invasion of Italy
- Smith-Connally Act Passed
- Race riots in Detroit
- "Zoot Suit" riots in Los Angeles
- Chinese Exclusion Act repealed
- Allies invade Normandy
- Americans recapture Philippines
- Demonstrators forces restaurant in Washington D.C. to desegregate