● The Great Depression started in 1929 and lasted until 1939.
What Happened & Who was involved
The Great Depression was longest-lasting economic decline
in history. In the United States, the Great Depression began after
the stock market crash on October 1929, which sent Wall Street
into panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next
several years, consumer spending and investment dropped,
causing major declines in industrial output and rising levels of
unemployment as failing companies laid off workers.
By 1933, when the Great Depression reached its lowest point,
13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed and almost half of
the banks had failed. Herbert Hoover was President when the
Great Depression began until Franklin D. Roosevelt became
President in 1933 and helped lessen the worst effects of the Great
Depression. The economy did not fully turn around until after
1939, when World War II kicked American industry grew
rapidly.
● FDR launched his “New Deal”
ideas March 4th, 1933.
● His plan put banking, working
and emergency relief, and
agricultural laws into place.
● By 1939, The New Deal had made
a great impact improving
American lives.
During the Great Depression, the Great Plains were hit hard with both a drought and horrendous
dust storms, creating what became known as the Dust Bowl.This caused crops to die and the
economy to drop.
These are example s
of hoovervilles . A
hooverville is a
shantytown built by
unemployed and
destitute people
during the depression.
The Great Depression Videos
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=imqJEJAfFvo
"A Photo Essay on the Great Depression." A Photo Essay on the Great
Depression. Web. 2 Dec. 2014.
"Great Depression." Kids Konnect. Web. 2 Dec. 2014.
Library of Congress. "Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal." Library of
Congress. Web. 2 Dec. 2014.
History Channel. "The Great Depression." History.com. A&E Television
Networks, 1 Jan. 2009. Web. 2 Dec. 2014.