The Great Depression and Dust Bowl

By ReaganFiskin

  • Hoover become president

    Hoover becomes president and lowered the top income tax rate.

  • Stock Market Crashes

    the stock market on Wall Street crashes and prices drop 11%.

  • Dust Bowl Drought

    A drought hits 23 states and is the worst in 300 years.

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

    Hoover signs this and its supposed to help farmers but caused trade war and the international trade began to fall.

  • Bank of the United States fails

    Being the forth largest bank in the nation, it was a major loss when the Bank of the United States failed.

  • Franklin Delano Roosevelt becomes president

    With Roosevelt as president, he launched the New Deal which closed all U.S. banks to stop failures.

  • Black Sunday

    worst dust storm in history.

  • Hottest summer ever

    In the next 3 months over 5000+ people would die due to the drought in one way or another. Some states even reaching 120 degrees.

  • Start of WWII

    Hitler invades Poland and thus starts WWII

  • Pearl Harbor

    Japan attacks Pearl Harbor during WWII and Congress declares war on Japan