| 1929 |
Work |
"El Corrido Pensilvanio" |
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| "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" |
| "El Deportado" |
| Moving Along |
"El Corrido de Texas" |
| 1930 |
Work |
"Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat" |
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| Home |
"Hobo's Lullaby" |
| 1931 |
United/Divded |
"Which Side Are You On?" |
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- Empire State Building opens
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| 1932 |
Work |
"Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" |
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- "Bonus Army" attacked by U.S. Army while marching on Washington
- 13 million are unemployed (1933)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Drought on Great Plains (1933)
- Civilian Conservation Corps (1933)
- National Recovery Administration (1933)
- Tennessee Valley Authority (1933)
- Agricultural Adjustment Administration(1933)
- Public Works Administration (1933)
- F.D.I.C. (1933)
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| 1934 |
Work |
"Boll Weevil Song" |
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- Indian Reorganization Act
- Works Progress Administration (1935)
- April 14, 1935 "Black Sunday"
- Supreme Court declares National Industrial Recovery Act unconstitutional (1935)
- Wagner Act and National Labor Relations (1935)
- Social Security Act (1935)
- Rural Electrification Project (1935)
- 1935 First neutrality Act passed (1935)
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| Home |
"Cancion Mexicana" |
| 1936 |
Moving Along |
"Cross Road Blues" |
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- Supreme Court declares Agricultural Adjustment Act unconstitutional
- Summer 1936 Jesse Owens wins 4 gold medals at Berlin Olympics
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| 1937 |
United/Divided |
"Strange Fruit" |
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- "I see one-third of the nation is ill-housed, ill-clad, and malnourished" — F.D.R.
- Japan invades China
- 1937-38 Strikes as unions take advantage of new labor legislation
- Sept. 1937 Bonneville Dam — part of the Rural Electrification Act
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| Moving Along |
"Do, Re, Mi" |
| Faith & Ideals |
"Whistle While You Work" |
| 1938 |
Faith & Ideals |
"God Bless America" |
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- "War of the Worlds" broadcast
- 1939 Hitler-Stalin pact
- World War II begins (1939)
- Easter Sunday Marian Anderson sings "America" to a crowd of 75,000 at the Lincoln Memorial after being denied a concert at Constitution Hall (1939)
- Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath published (1939)
- Wizard of Oz released (1939)
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| 1940 |
War & Peace |
"Gee, Ma, I Wanna Go Home" |
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| Home |
"Roll On Columbia" |
| 1941 |
War & Peace |
"Goodbye Mama (I'm Off to Yokohama)" |
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- Lend-Lease Act (1941)
- Atlantic Charter (1941)
- Pearl Harbor attacked (1941)
- F.D.R. orders employers doing business with government to support racial equality (1941)
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| Moving Along |
"Chattanooga Choo-choo" |
1942
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United/Divided |
"I'm Marching Down Freedom's Road" |
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- After February, no new cars made
- Bataan death march
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| War & Peace |
"Der Führer's Face" |
| "A Slip of the Lip" |
| Work |
"Rosie the Riveter" |
| 1944 |
Home
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"Duration Blues"
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- June 6, 1944 D-Day — Allies invade Normandy, France
- December 1944 Battle of the Bulge begins
- In Korematsu vs. U.S. Supreme Court rules that Japanese internment camps are a "necessary measure"
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| 1945 |
Faith & Ideals |
"You'll Never Walk Alone" |
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- April 1945 F.D.R. dies
- May 1945 War ends in Europe
- August 1945 War ends in Japan with dropping of atom bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki
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