ban Black contralto Marian Anderson from singing at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, so she goes to steps of Lincoln Memorial to perform

Daughters of the American Revolution

destryed 18 US ships, and made America declare war on Japan

bombing of Pearl Harbor on 12/7/41

who dropped the first atomic bomb

Tibbets on the Enola Gay on Hiroshima

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American History

100 Events in American History 1932-46

Event	Person	Event	Person	Event	Person
Sidesteps death in Chicago when assassin Guiseppe Zangara shoots and kills Chigago mayor Anton Cermak while wounding four others	Franklin Roosevelt	Dies in the electric chair less than five weeks after attemping to kill Franklin Roosevelt	Zangara	moves up the March 4th election to January 20th	20th Amendment (Lame Duck Amendment)
The last president to be inaugurated on a March date	FDR	"The only thing we have to fear is fear itself"	FDR	Temporarily closes nation's banks, establishes Civilian Conservation Corps and the TVA, begins weekly "Fireside Chats" on the Radio	Events of Rossevelt's first 100 days
becomes first-ever female cabinet member	Perkins	first female cabinet member's position	Secretary of Labor	Published "Every Man a King"	Huey Long
Senator from Louisiana nicknamed "The Kingfish"	Long	starred in 1933 classic, "King Kong"	Fay Wray	abolished Prohibition	21st Amendment
Where the first-ever baseball all-star game takes place	Comiskey Park, Chicago	outcome of first baseball all-star game	AL defeats NL, 4 - 2	gunned down by law enforcement officials in Ruston, Louisiana	Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow (Bonnie & Clyde)
first man to ever be named Public Enemy #1 by J. Edgar Hoover's FBI	John Dillinger	who killed John Dillinger	FBI G-Men	formed to monitor abuses and help reform the US Stock Market	Securities and Exchange Commission
became Public Enemy #1 after John Dillinger's death	Charles "Pretty Boy" Floyd	where Pretty Boy Floyd was killed	near East Liverpool, Ohio	in second-ever all star game, Carl Hubbel struck out whom?	Ruth, Gehrig, Fox, Simmons and Cronin in succession
failed in his bid to become California's governor	Novelist Upton Sinclair	what party was Sinclair representing when he ran for California's governor	socialist	folk opera set on Catfish Row in Charleston, SC	Porgy and Bess
wrote Porgy and Bess	Gershwin	won the first Heisman Trophy	Berwanger	Berwanger's position	running back with University of Chicago
assassinataed in Baton Rouge by physician Carl Weiss	Senator Huey Long	"I never met a man I didn't like"	Humorist Will Rogers	died in Alaskan airplane crash with aviator Wiley Post	Rogers
opened on the Colorado River	Hoover Dam	created Lake Meade	Hoover Dam	executed for the Lindbergh baby kidnapping	Hauptmann
publishes "How to Win Friends and Influence People"	Carnegie	named as first inductees to the Baseball Hall of Fame	Ruth, Cobb, Wagner, Mathewson & Johnson	beat Landon to win re-election	FDR
FDR's vice president	Garner	two states that voted for Landon	Maine and Vermont	won four gold medals at 1936 Olympics in Munich	Jesse Owens
won Nobel Prize for literature in 1936	O'Neill	"Gone with the Wind" sold one million copies in 6 months, becoming the fastes selling book in US publishing history	Mitchell	won 1937 Pulitzer Prize for fiction	Gone with the Wind
exploded at its morring in Lakehurst, NJ; killing 36	Hindeberg	disappeared during flight over Pacific Ocean	Earhart	opened over San Francisco Bay	Golden Gate Bridge
Defeated Jim Braddock to win boxing's heaveyweight crown	Louis	bombed the US gunboat Panay aon the Yangtze River likking two US sailors and wounding 30	Japanese	created nationwide panic when read over the radio	The War of the World
wrote The War of the Worlds	Wells	prints the first episode of the adventures of Superman	Action Comics	created Superman	Seigel and Shuster
takes off from New York for a flight purportedly to California but winds up landing in Ireland	Corrigan	pitches back-to=back major league no hitters for Cincinatti	Vander Meer	the first full-length animated feature	Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
produced Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs	Walt Disney	dedicates monument at Gettysburg, marking 75th anniversary of the battle	FDR	wins the NObel Prize for LIterature, becoming first American woman to do so	Buck
second woman to win Nobel Prize for literature	Morrison	first sings "God Bless America"	Smith	wrote "God Bless America"	Berlin
ban Black contralto Marian Anderson from singing at DAR Constitution Hall in Washington, so she goes to steps of Lincoln Memorial to perform	Daughters of the American Revolution	addressed the fans at Yankee stadium saying "I have been given a bad break, but I have an awful lot to live for. I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth"	Gehrig	diagnosed with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis	Gehrig
"Gone with the Wind" "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" "Wuthering Heights" "Pinocchio" "The Wizard of Oz"	Hollywood's landmark year	published four-volume "Abraham Lincoln, the War Years	Sandburg	won Nobel Prize in Physics for development of cyclotron	Lawrence
discover Rh factor in human blood	Levine and Stetson	in a letter to FDR discusses wartime potential of atomic power	Einstein	becomes first black to win an oscar for best supporting actress in "Gone with the Wind"	McDaniel
makes first public demonstration of the helicopter	Sikorsky	makes his debut in Warner Brothers short film "A Wild Hare"	Bugs Bunny	wins first-ever third term	FDR
FDR's VP for third term	Wallace	who FDR defeated for 3rd term	Willkie	collaborates with Walt Disney to produce classical music soundtrack for "Fantasia"	Stokowski
finished eight months after death of Borglum	Mount Rushmore	Four Freedoms	speech, worship, from want, from fear	who called for four freedoms	FDR
allows US to provide miliatry aid to Great Britain	Lend-Lease Bill	meet off Newfoundland to draft The Atlantic Charter	FDR and Churchill	document establishing common principles on which the tow leaders base their hopes for the future	The Atlantic Charter
goes on 56 game hitting streak for the NY Yankees	Dimaggio	becomes las major leaguer to bat .400 (.406) for a single seagon	Williams (Boston Red Sox)	Last National Leaguer to bat .400	Giants Terry
destryed 18 US ships, and made America declare war on Japan	bombing of Pearl Harbor on 12/7/41	In a 12/8/41 speech to Congress he said that the previous day was "a date that will live in infamy"	FDR speaking of bombing of Pearl Harbor	casts only dissenting vote in Congress and becomes only person to vote against US entry into both world wars	Rankin
surrenders his 76,000 troops on Bataan	King	thousands of troops die en route to POW camps	Bataan Death March	leads US squadron of B-25s in a raid on Tokyo and other Japanese cities raids became th ebasis for the movie "30 seconds over Tokyo"	Doolittle
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Treiste in teh Adriatick an Iron Curtain ahs descended across the continent"	Churchill	who is on the dime	FDR	first electronic digital computer	ENIAC
developed ENIAC	Mauchly and Eckert	where the most powerful atomic bomb was tested	Bikini Atoll	granted independece from US on July 4, 1946	Philippines
donated $8.5 million to the UN to purchase property in NY City for permanent headquarters	Rockefeller	first American saint	Cabrini	chief US counsel at Nuremberg War Crimes Trial	Jackson
hangs nine high-ranking Nazies for crimes against humanity	Nuremberg War Crimes Trial	publishes his "Common Sense Book of Baby and Child Care"	Spock	(blank)	(blank)
2 aircraft carriers sunk in Battle of Coral Sea	Japan's Shoho and US Lexington	Japanese lose one heavy cruiser, four fleet carriers an d300 aircraft	Battle of Midway	given command of American forces in Europe	Eisenhower
team of scientists working under stands at University of Chicago football field create first atomic chain reaction	Fermi	where US defeated Japanese	Guadalcanal	promise war in Europe will not end until there is unconditional surrender of Germany, Italy and Japan	FDR and Churchill, DeGaulle
dedicates the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC	FDR	first collaborative hit in "Oklahoma"	Rodgers and Hammerstein	where FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet	Teheran
where FDR meets with Churchill and Chaing Kai-shek	Cairo	On June 6, 1944 150,000 men land on the beaches of Normandy	D-Day (Operation Overlord)	why did US troops enter Paris in 1944	to liberate the French
how many US warplanes bombed Berlin	800	"I have returned"	MacArthur in Philippines	won unprecendented 4th term over Dewey	FDR
FDR's 4th VP	Truman	At Dumbarton Oaks Conference in Washington DC grounwork is laid for this	United Nations	US troops repel German offensive in the Ardennes Forest	The Battle of the Bulge
Churchill, Stalin meet here to make post-war plans	Yalta in Crimea	captures marines raising the flag atop Mount Suribachi, Iwo Jima	Rosenthal	dies at Warm Springs, GA on 4/12/45	FDR
becomes president upon FDRs death	Truman	where US Defeats Japan	Okinawa	when Germany surrenders	May 1945
where a B-25 bomber kills 13 in NY	Empire State Building	first atomic bomb is produced as part of	The Manhattan Project at Los Alamos, NM	where first atomic bomb is exploded	Alamogordo, NM
who dropped the first atomic bomb	Tibbets on the Enola Gay on Hiroshima	second atomic bomb is dropped	by Bock's Car on Nagasaki	where does Japan surrender	aboard teh USS Missouri in Tokyo Harbor

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