Major Events

Chapter 33 · 1932–1939

Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president in a landslide

Nov. 1932

National bank holiday and Emergency Banking Relief Act

Mar. 1933

Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) created

Mar. 1933

Agricultural Adjustment Act and Tennessee Valley Authority created

May 1933

National Industrial Recovery Act creates the NRA

Jun. 1933

Supreme Court strikes down the NRA in Schechter v. U.S.

1935

Social Security Act and Wagner Act (Second New Deal)

Aug. 1935

Huey Long assassinated

Sep. 1935

FDR reelected in a landslide

Nov. 1936

Roosevelt's "court-packing" plan fails in Congress

1937

The "Roosevelt recession" interrupts recovery

1937–38