market crashed due to speculators. 3. Herbert Hoover was a crappy president who lost money in real estate by building Hoovervilles during the Great Depression (hint: don't build real estate when no one can afford to live there). 4. FDR was elected due to his grand plan for a New Deal which was well thought out and well received and eventually led to him getting a statue. The New Deal helped get the US out of the Great Depression, though not as much as the upcoming war. 5. Hitler was a very, very bad person and tried to take over Europe (no jokes here, he was really bad, worse than Bill Laimbeer or the guy who created country music. Ok, maybe a couple of jokes.). 6. At some point the Japanese (and not the Germans, despite what John Belushi said) bombed Pearl Harbor and caused the US to attack them. The US eventually put Japanese Americans in internment camps (not a proud moment in US History, unlike the moon landing, despite 25% of people thinking that the moon landing was a hoax, and yes that figure is right). The US later dropped atomic bombs on Japan, even though the allied fire bombing in Germany was just as effective. 7. America entered the war in Europe and kicked some Nazi ass. The US was aided by the British and helped by Germany's attack on Russia. Attacking Russia in the winter is a bad idea, ask Napoleon. 8. Wartime production and mobilization