Study Tool: Chronological Events of the 1932-1939 Era – Abridged

This chronology does not include the Foreign Affairs column or the US Land Expansion column, nor the details and footnotes in other columns.

 

 

Date

Presidential Election/ Event

Government Institutions

US Economic Development

Issue/Organization Development

Political Party Development

1932-11

Herbert Hoover v. F. D. Roosevelt v. Norman Thomas

 

Dust Bowl in 1930s in high plains

 

 

1933-01

 

20th Amendment ratified – ends March start

 

 

 

1933-03

 

 

National “bank holiday”; federal inspection; license

 

“fireside chat” - 1st New Deal starts

1933-03

 

 

 

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)

 

1933-04

 

US abandons the gold standard

 

 

 

1933-05

 

 

Federal Emergency Relief Administration, FERA)

 

 

1933-05

 

 

Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)

 

 

1933-05

 

 

Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)

 

 

1933-06

 

Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC)

 

 

 

1933-06

 

 

Home and farm refinancing

 

 

1933-06

 

 

National Recovery Administration (NRA)

Public Works Administration (PWA)

 

 

1933-06-16

 

 

 

 

Special session adjourns

1933-11

 

 

Civilian Works Administration (CWA), Harry Hopkins

 

 

1933-12

 

21st Amendment – repeal of Prohibition

 

 

 

1934-00

 

 

 

Liberty League formed. Others [1]

 

1934-06

 

Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) est.

 

 

 

1934-06

 

Federal Communications Commission (FCC) est.

 

 

 

1934-06

 

Federal Housing Administration (FHA) est.

 

 

 

1934-11

 

 

 

 

Democrats – 9 more in House, in Senate

1935-00

 

Schechter v. United States – NRA unconstitutional

 

 

 

1935-01

 

20th Amendment, 1st use

 

 

2nd New Deal starts

1935-04

 

Soil Conservation Service est. in Agriculture Dept.

 

 

 

1935-05

 

 

Resettlement Administration (RA)

 

Huey Long assassinated

1935-05

 

 

Rural Electrification Administration (REA)

 

 

1935-06

 

 

National Youth Administration (NYA)

 

 

1935-07

 

 

National Labor Relations Act – Wagner Act

 

 

1935-08

 

Social Security est.

 

 

 

1935-11

 

 

 

Congress of Industrial Organization (CIO),

 

1936-00 9

 

United States v. Butler – AAA unconstitutional

 

Olympics in Berlin —Jesse Owens

 

1936-11

Alfred M. Landon v. F. D. Roosevelt v. William Lemke

 

 

 

Endorsement of Lemke’s Union Party by Father Coughlin’s group

1937-01

 

 

 

 

 

1937-02 +

 

Supreme Court, justices to 15 maximum; shift

GM sit-down strike; FDR does not send troups

 

 

1937-05

 

 

Republic Steel – 10 strikers shot

 

 

1937-11+

 

 

Recession – renew relief

 

Southern Democrats shift Republican

1938-00 9

 

 

Fair Labor Standards Act

Heavyweight title –Joe Louis Max Schmeling

 

1938-10

 

 

 

“War of the Worlds,” Orson Welles

 

1938-11

 

 

 

 

Republican increases

1939-04

 

 

 

Marian Anderson, Lincoln Center

 


 

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[1] Others = Share Our Wealth, Huey Long of LA; Old Age Revolving Pension, Dr. Francis Townsend of CA ; National Union for Social Justice, Father Charles E. Couglin