28 Jul 1932 Jahr - The Bonus March

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- A thousand unemployed WWI veteran marched to Washington D.C. to demand immediate payment of bonuses promised to them.
- Congress failed to pass the bonus bill they sought.
- General Douglas MacArthur, the army's chief of staff used tanks and tear gas and drive the veterans from Washington.
- This incident cause many Americans to regard Hoover as heartless

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