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Great Depression Timeline

By Ranbir Singh

  • Herbert Hoover Elected President

    Herbert Hoover Elected President
    Hoover is elected president, in which he held the office during the onset of the great depression. He seen many things that could have hurt and did hurt the economy. For example crop price falling, loans going unpaid, etc.

  • Stock Market Crash

    Stock Market Crash
    Share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. People didn't have enough money and jobs to feed themselves and their families. Banks got shutdown and wiped the investors out.

  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl
    The Dust Bowl was when dust storms that damaged the economy and agriculture of the American prairies. Severe droughts and a failure to apply dryland farming was the result afterwards.

  • End Of Great Depression

    End Of Great Depression
    Time period during 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  • FDR Is Elected President.

    FDR Is Elected President.
    32nd president of the United States. Did many great things and tried to help as much as he can during the Great Depression, by passing bills and making new jobs.

  • Bank Holiday

    Bank Holiday
    This was down by FDR because he wanted to restore the banks and start over to help improve the economy. Public confidence can be attributed because it would help them.

  • CCC

    CCC
    Was a public work relief program that operated from 1933 to 1942 in the United States for unemployed men. Originally for young men ages 18–25.

  • TVA Is Created

    TVA Is Created
    Provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, and economic development to the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly affected by the Great Depression.

  • National Housing Act

    National Housing Act
    Helped low-income families buy homes. Federal Savings and Loan Insurance Corp.

  • Hoover Dam

    Hoover Dam
    It was constructed between 1931 and 1936 during the Great Depression and was dedicated on September 30, 1935, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  • WPA Created

    WPA Created
    Employing millions of people that needed jobs to carry out public works projects, for example things like the construction of public buildings and roads.

  • AAA

    AAA
    AAA is a privately held not-for-profit national member association and service organization with over 58 million members in North America.