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Major Events That Happened In The Great Depression In 1933
- April 13, 1933 the Zenith Radio Corporation sets in motion it's work on the Zenith Stratosphere 1000Z radio; which would become one of the greatest radio ever produced
- The 70 story RCA building in Rockefeller Center opens and becomes NBC's radio studios in New York
- On March 4, 1933 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) is inaugurated as 32nd President, pledges to pull US out of Depression
- On March 5, 1933 FDR proclaims 10-day nation-wide bank holiday
- On March 12, 1933 FDR conducts his first "fireside chat" were he announces the "New Deal" a plan designed to pull the US out of the depression
- Civilian Conservation Corp, begins tree conservation
- Construction of Golden Gate Bridge begins
- The Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) is created to generate new jobs and power for rural America
- Hoover Dam is completed
- Adolf Hitler becomes German Chancellor
- Reichstag (German Parliament) burnt down
- "Enabling Act" suspends civil liberties in Germany
- All political parties in Germany, except Nazi party, banned
- Nazis Dachau concentration camp is created
- The Nazis Gestapo founded
- On March 5, 1933 Germany's Nazi Party wins majority in parliament (43.9% or 17.2 million votes) On March 23rd the German Reichstag grand Adolph Hitler dictatorial powers
- Congress authorizes Civilian Conservation Corps
- Jewish scientist Albert Einstein fleas Nazi Germany to the America
- Germany leaves the League of Nations
- Japan leaves the League of Nations
- United States repeals prohibition of alcohol
- Nevada becomes first US state to regulate narcotics
- Wiley Posts becomes the first pilot to fly solo around the world
- TWA takes delivery on the first modern airliner the DC-1
- English scientists E. W. Fawcett & R.O. Gibson, accidentally discover Polythene
- "King Kong" the movie, premieres at Radio City Music Hall &RKO Roxy NYC
- The 1933 “The Century of Progress” Chicago Worlds Fair opens
- NAACP begins coordinated attack on segregation and discrimination
- The US Farm Credit Administration is formed
- A major earthquake hits Long Beach, CA
- March 14, 1933 Winston Churchill wants to boost England's air defense
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