100 Events in American History 1932-46
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| 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)
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| 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
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| becomes first-ever female cabinet member | Perkins | first female cabinet member's position | Secretary of Labor | Published "Every Man a King" | Huey Long
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| Senator from Louisiana nicknamed "The Kingfish" | Long | starred in 1933 classic, "King Kong" | Fay Wray | abolished Prohibition | 21st Amendment
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| wrote Porgy and Bess | Gershwin | won the first Heisman Trophy | Berwanger | Berwanger's position | running back with University of Chicago
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| 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
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| opened on the Colorado River | Hoover Dam | created Lake Meade | Hoover Dam | executed for the Lindbergh baby kidnapping | Hauptmann
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| wrote The War of the Worlds | Wells | prints the first episode of the adventures of Superman | Action Comics | created Superman | Seigel and Shuster
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| 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
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| 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
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| second woman to win Nobel Prize for literature | Morrison | first sings "God Bless America" | Smith | wrote "God Bless America" | Berlin
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| 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
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| "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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| finished eight months after death of Borglum | Mount Rushmore | Four Freedoms | speech, worship, from want, from fear | who called for four freedoms | FDR
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| "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
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| developed ENIAC | Mauchly and Eckert | where the most powerful atomic bomb was tested | Bikini Atoll | granted independece from US on July 4, 1946 | Philippines
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| 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
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| 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)
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| 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
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| 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
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| dedicates the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, DC | FDR | first collaborative hit in "Oklahoma" | Rodgers and Hammerstein | where FDR, Churchill and Stalin meet | Teheran
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| 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
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| how many US warplanes bombed Berlin | 800 | "I have returned" | MacArthur in Philippines | won unprecendented 4th term over Dewey | FDR
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| 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
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| 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
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| becomes president upon FDRs death | Truman | where US Defeats Japan | Okinawa | when Germany surrenders | May 1945
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| 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
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| 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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