Important Events from 1929-1942

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Stock Market Crash

1929

Construction of Empire State Building begins

1930

US officially gets national anthem

1931

Hitler gets German citizenship

1932

FDR elected president

1933

Dust Bowl

1934

Neutrality Act passed

1935

New Deal Recovery

1936

The Hindenberg Disaster

1937

Recession

1938

WWII begins

1939

FDR approves military Draft

1940

Pearl Harbor

1941

US enters WWII

1942