Question

What was the mission of the bonus army in 1932

Answer 1

Bonus Army. The Bonus Army were the 43,000 marchers—17,000 U.S. World War I veterans, their families, and affiliated groups—who gathered in Washington, D.C. in mid-1932 to demand cash-payment redemption of their service certificates.

Answer 2

The Bonus army was a group of world war 1 veterans who along with their families gathered in Washington DC in spring and summer of 1932.

Step-by-step explanation:

• They setup their camps around the city to pressurize Congress in order to give them their promised bonuses scheduled many years ago.

• As an arrangement was made to pay bonus to the world war veterans in 1945 where great depression struck i.e. worldwide economic downturn.

• So it became hard to feed their family as they were out of work led them to march the bonus army also called as “Bonus Expeditionary Force” to pressurize the congress to decide whether or not to get the bonus for war veterans as promised.