Events from 1929-1942

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Stock Market Crash

1929

Scientists Split the Atom

1932

Adolf Hitler Gains Power of Germany

1933

FDR Elected President

1933

Pluto is Discovered

1933

Mao Zedong Begins the Long March

1934

Social Security Enacted in U.S.

1935

New Deal Recovery

1936

Ameilia Earhart Vanishes

1937

Recession

1938

First Commercial Flight Over the Atlantic

1939

World War II Begins

1939

Pearl Harbor

1941

U.S. Enters World War II

1942