The Bonus Army consists of World War One had-fought veterans and their families, which Hoover, the US President them to give them a delayed money "bonus" after the war has ended.
But, things went awry for them when Great Depression struck the continent. Many of them had been retrenched from jobs, so being unemployed, have not enough income to support themselves or their families, suffering from widespread poverty, so they became very agitated and asked President Hoover to give them their bonus earlier. The President wave away their pleas, so they got very angry. They gathered together, about 17,000 hit the streets of Washington, DC in spring and summer of 1932 to protest against his decision. Most of them camped in Hooverville on the Anacostoa Flats.
President Hoover was angry with their protests, so he order a police evacuation of the veterans. Led by Douglas MacArthur, supported by six army tanks, they pelted the veterans with bayonets and adamite gas, and force them out of their camps, killing and wounding 100 of them.
Many civil servants saw this appealing scenario and was very disgusted and utterly shamed by Hoover's rash decision. His popularity rate plummeted after this incident and he was criticized for killing his own people, showing his cruel and cold-blooding interior. He was voted out of power, and Franklin D. Roosevelt became the next President of United States.
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