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The Bonus Army was a group of 43,000 demonstrators – 17,000 veterans of U.S. involvement in World War I, their families, and affiliated groups – who gathered in Washington, D.C., in mid-1932 to demand early cash redemption of their service bonus certificates.
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Aug 8, 2024 · Bonus Army, gathering of some 10,000 to 25,000 World War I veterans who, with their wives and children, converged on Washington, D.C., in 1932, demanding immediate bonus payment for wartime services to alleviate the economic hardship of the Great Depression.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
The Bonus Army was the name applied a group over 17,000 U.S. World War I veterans who marched on Washington, D.C. during the summer of 1932 demanding immediate cash payment of the service bonuses promised to them by Congress eight years earlier.
Jul 25, 2023 · After victory in World War I, the US government promised in 1924 that servicemen would receive a bonus for their service, in 1945. The bonus was also known as the “Tombstone Bonus.” Then, the Great Depression hit, beginning with the stock market collapse of 1929.
Feb 13, 2005 · In 1932, World War I veterans gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand payment of a bonus. The violence that ensued helped Franklin Roosevelt become president.
- Sheilah Kast
May 27, 2021 · The Wright Patman Bonus Bill passed the House of Representatives on June 15, 1932, allowing prompt payment of veterans’ bonuses. By then, thousands of marchers had gathered around the Capitol itself.
The World War Adjusted Compensation Act, or Bonus Act, [1] was a United States federal law passed on May 19, 1924, that granted a benefit to veterans of American military service in World War I.
