The Great Depression

  • Black Tuesday-Stock Market Crash

    Black Tuesday-Stock Market Crash

    Postwar prosperity ends in the 1929 Stock Market crash. The plummeting stock prices led to losses between 1929 and 1931 of an estimated $50 billion and started the worst American depression in the nation's history.
  • Planet Pluto is discovered

    Planet Pluto is discovered

    Clyde Tombaugh comfirmed Pluto a planet.
  • Hawley Smoot Tariff

    Hawley Smoot Tariff

    Raised US tariffs on imported goods to record levels.
  • Star-Spangled Banner becomes the national anthem

    Star-Spangled Banner becomes the national anthem

    Bacame a national anthem from a signature from president Hoover,
  • Empire State Building is created

    Empire State Building is created

    Building opened, lights were turned on by Hoover.
  • Lindbergh baby kidnapped

    Lindbergh baby kidnapped

    Found dead from a skull fracture
  • Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president

    Franklin D. Roosevelt elected president

    President during middle of the Depression.
  • 21st Amendment

    21st Amendment

    Prohibition ends
  • Run on the Banks

    Run on the Banks

    From 1929-1933, customers deposited their money and wanted cash
  • New Deal

    New Deal

    Lasted from 1933-1938, Roosevelt made a series of economic programs.
  • Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Established

    Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) Established

    Enforced federal securities and laws, and regulated securities.
  • Hoover Dam completed

    Hoover Dam completed

    Massive effort in creating the world's largest concrete structure
  • Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell is published

    Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell is published

    Historical romance novel enjoyed by many
  • Jerry Owens mins four gold medals at Berlin Olympics

    Jerry Owens mins four gold medals at Berlin Olympics

    won four gold medals for america in front of Hitler, which pissed Hitler off, because Jessie was a jew
  • Hindenburg crashes

    Hindenburg crashes

    Caught fire and was destroyed during it's attempt to dock
  • Amelia Earhart dissappears

    Amelia Earhart dissappears

    Crashed into the sea (supposedly)
  • War of the worlds broadcast

    War of the worlds broadcast

    Episode of American radio drama that was mistaken as a real event
  • Grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck published

    Grapes of wrath by John Steinbeck published

    An american realist novel about the dust bowl