What was the Bonus Army, why were they forced to leave Washington, and who commanded the force that removed them?
What will be an ideal response?
Answer:
1) The Bonus Army was a group of about 14,000 unemployed veterans who went to Washington in the summer of 1932 to lobby Congress for immediate payment of the bonus that had been approved in 1924 for payment in 1945.
2) After two veterans were killed in a clash with the police, President Herbert Hoover, calling them insurrectionists and communists, ordered the army to remove them.
3) General Douglas MacArthur
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