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Siteseen: American Historama: Gi Bill Facts
Comprehensive resource features a summary and detailed facts about the GI Bill that provided a range of benefits to returning veterans from WW2 to make an efficient and speedy readjustment to civilian life and the economy.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Battle of Midway
Comprehensive overview and detailed facts about the Battle of Midway when American planes defeated a Japanese fleet on its way to invade the Midway Islands. This was the turning point of the war in the Pacific between the United States...
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Siteseen: American Historama: Works Progress Administration
Discover interesting facts and information about the Works Progress Administration established in April 1935 to provide light construction jobs for millions of unskilled workers.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Civilian Conservation Corps
Discover interesting facts and information about the Civilian Conservation Corps that was established to employ young men to work on conservation projects and was created as part of FDR's New Deal Programs.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Tuskegee Airmen
Detailed facts and information about the Tuskegee Airmen and the Red Tails, the first unit of African American military aviators in the US armed forces.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Ww2 Navajo Code Talkers
Discover the role of Navajo Code Talkers in WW2 through a summary and 27 detailed facts.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Battle of Midway Timeline
Interesting Battle of Midway timeline with details of significant times and important events that occurred on June 4, 1942.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Glass Steagall Banking Act of 1933
Read interesting facts about the Banking Act of 1933, or the Glass-Steagall Act. It prohibited commercial banks from engaging in the investment business and created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC).
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Siteseen: American Historama: Us Mobilization for Ww2 Facts
Provides details facts and an overview of the US Mobilization for WW2.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Second New Deal
Discussion of the programs and reforms launched in the period of the Second New Deal that provided for social and economic legislation to benefit the mass of working people.
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Siteseen: American Historama: The Holocaust Timeline
Important dates and details of events of the Holocaust leading up to the establishment of the death camps and the Final Solution told in a factual timeline sequence.
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Siteseen: American Historama: National Recovery Administration
Important facts and information about the creation of the National Recovery Administration (NRA) in June 1933.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Public Works Administration
Important facts and information about the Public Works Administration created by the National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 (PWA) for large scale public works projects.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Manhattan Project Timeline
Manhattan Project timeline with dates of important events and people who worked on the atomic bomb.
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Siteseen: American Historama: American Isolationism in the 1930's
Interesting facts on the reasons and effects of American Isolationism policy in the 1930s.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Pearl Harbor Timeline
Provides details of important dates and events leading up to and including the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on Sunday, December 7, 1941.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Neutrality Acts
Discover the terms of the Neutrality Acts banning arms and war materials to countries at war. These laws were designed to prevent the United States of America from being entangled in a possible foreign war.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Federal Emergency Relief Administration
The Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA) agency, the first mass public assistance program, was created to provide relief support to nearly 5 million households each month.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Tennessee Valley Authority (Tva)
In May 1933, the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was created to rejuvenate the region. It enabled the Federal government to develop and distribute cheap hydroelectric power (electricity) into rural areas that were not served by private...
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Siteseen: American Historama: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
In June 1933 the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) was created to restore confidence in the banks following the banking crisis during the Great Depression.
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Siteseen: American Historama: Securities and Exchange Commission
Read about the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that was established in June 1934 as an independent government agency to enforce federal securities laws to regulate the Stock Market and to prevent fraud.
Digital History
Digital History: Bonus Army
Read about the government's reaction to the unemployed World War I veterans who comprised the Bonus Army encamped in Washington, D.C. See what the the veterans were asking for, and see how their treatment assured the election of Franklin...
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National Park Service: National Mall
This site is from the National Park Service. No shoe stores at this mall! Find out about our national "front yard" -- statistics, a link to the history of the National Mall, and a listing of all the monuments on the Mall. Also includes a...