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The Great Depression

By Kport

  • U.S. Stock Prices Fall

    U.S. Stock Prices Fall
    The fall of stock prices is the marking the begining of the great depression.
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    The Great Depression

  • First Bank Panic

    First Bank Panic
    The first bank panic starts causeing bankruptcies

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff

    Smoot-Hawley Tariff
    Congress passes the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

  • Reconstruction Finance Corperation

    Reconstruction Finance Corperation
    he Corperation aimed to loan money to banks and rail roads to keep them from going bankrupt

  • 100,000 Total banks have failed

    100,000 Total banks have failed
    100,000 banks have failed since 1929, crippling the economy.

  • Roosevelt elected

    Roosevelt elected
    Democrat Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats incumbent Republican President Herbert Hoover in a landslide to win the presidency.

  • Hitler becomes dictator

    Hitler becomes dictator
    Hitler rises to power

  • Unemployment Hits 25 Percent

    Unemployment Hits 25 Percent
    unemployment goes to 25 %

  • Upton Sinclair Publishes Treatise

    Upton Sinclair Publishes Treatise
    Upton Sinclair publishes Treatise becomes very popular

  • Roosevelt Reelected

    Roosevelt Reelected
    Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a second term as president, winning in a landslide over Republican Alf Landon. Roosevelt wins every state but Maine and Vermont.

  • Agricultural adjustment act

    Agricultural adjustment act
    The agricultural adjustment act established a minimum wage and maximum work week

  • World War II starts

    World War II starts
    WW2 starts