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1929–1941.

The "Great Depression " was a severe, world -wide economic cause in the United States by the stock market crash on "Black Thursday", October 24, 1929 .

World unemployment peaked at nearly 30% in 1932 and remained in double digits through the decade. German and US production dropped to 53% of their 1929 levels.

https://www.imf.org/external/np/exr/center/mm/eng/mm_cc_03.htm#:~:text=World%20unemployment%20peaked%20at%20nearly,gold%20standard%20in%20the%201930s.

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October 29, 1929,

Black Tuesday , it was marked by a deep fall in the stock market, especially when it took a hard hit in high trading volume. it fell 12%, one of the largest one-day drops in stock market history.

Black Tuesday triggered a chain of insane events in the US and Europe, which included mass bankruptcies and unemployment, and dramatic declines in production and money supply.

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/black-tuesday/

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1930 -1940

The heart of the Dust Bowl was the Texas and western Oklahoma, but winds carried the dust so far that East Coast cities sometimes found a powdery layer of dirt on windows, streets, sidewalks and automobiles.

Apart from its direct impact on people , the Dust Bowl had a closing effect on crops where wheat and maize production in the USA rose by 36% and 48% during the 1930s.

https://billofrightsinstitute.org/essays/the-dust-bowl

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Born: August 10, 1874,

Died: October 20, 1964

Herbert Clark Hoover was an American politician who served as the 31st president of the United States from 1929 to 1933. A member of the Republican Party, he held office during the Great Depression

Son of a Quaker blacksmith, Herbert Clark Hoover brought to the Presidency a reputation for public service as an engineer, and administrator

https://millercenter.org/president/hoover

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March 12, 1933 – June 12, 1944

Roosevelt continued to use fireside chats throughout his presidency to address the fears and concerns of the American people as well as to inform them of the positions and actions taken by the U.S. government.

Broadcast from the White House's with the President actually sitting next to a fireplace the informal but serious talk helped to calm people worried about a nationwide bank closure. The talk was with a spreading panic.

https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/fdr-fireside

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March 9, 1933,

Roosevelt's "New Deal" aimed at promoting economic recovery and putting Americans back to work and create big public works program for the unemployed.

The New Deal was responsible for some powerful and important accomplishments. It put people back to work. It restored faith in the American economic system, while at the same time it revived a sense of hope in the American people

https://www.khanacademy.org/humanities/us-history/rise-to-world-power/great-depression/a/the-new-deal

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August 14, 1935

Act created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers age 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.

The Act created several programs that form the basis for the government's role in providing income security, specifically, the old-age insurance, unemployment insurance, and Aid to Families with Dependent Children programs.

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Social-Security-Act-United-States-1935

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The National Cancer Institue Is Established 

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The National Cancer Institue Is Established 

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August 5, 1937.

The act, signed by President Franklin D. Roosevelt, established the National Cancer Institute as the federal government's agency addressed research and needs for the cause, diagnosis, and treatment of cancer.

established the foundation for a nationwide cancer program.

https://nihrecord.nih.gov/2021/12/10/impact-1971s-national-cancer-act-marked#:~:text=NCA%20also%20established%20the%20foundation,more%20than%202%2C200%20sites%20internationally.

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Works Progress Administration (WPA) (mention school lunch programs)

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Works Progress Administration (WPA) (mention school lunch programs)

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On May 6, 1935

Roosevelt created the WPA in 1935, a program that created jobs in the public for the nation's unemployed. The WPA Nutritional Lunch Program was both a welfare assistance program, providing hot lunches to schools, and a jobs program that employed people to prepare and deliver the food.

The WPA Nutrition Lunch Program was a welfare assistance program, providing hot lunches to schools, and a jobs program that employed people to prepare and deliver the food.

https://www.ancestry.com/c/family-history-learning-hub/wpa

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April 5, 1933,

Roosevelt established the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1933. it allowed single men between the ages of 18 and 25 to list in work programs to improve America's public lands, forests, and parks

The billions of trees planted or protected, the millions of acres saved from the soil rising or the prevent of flooded rivers, the hundreds of parks were developed, and are a permanent view to the success of Corps work.

https://study.com/academy/lesson/civilian-conservation-corps-definition-facts-purpose.html

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National Venereal Disease Control Act 1938

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National Venereal Disease Control Act 1938

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May 24, 1938

Syphilis and gonorrhea became topics that people commonly had in their everyday life at work and school, and in alot of public spaces.

the disease was a major reason to lost men days in World War I so the government attempted to put an educational campaign in 1918.

https://uknowledge.uky.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1107&context=gradschool_theses

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Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938

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Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938

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June 25th, 1938,

It clamied non true claims for drugs, and a separate law gave the Federal Trade Commission over drug advertising. The act also legally made high food standards.

the FDA had authority to reduce medical devices to standard the foods for the people consuming it in thier everyday life

https://www.usp.org/sites/default/files/fda-exhibit/legislation/1938.html