The Great Depression and the Dust Bowl

By AugustNB

  • Stock Market Crash

    Also known as The Great Crash, the American stock market crashed so heavily that billions of dollars were lost, causing the entire economy to collapse.

  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

    Raises taxes on almost 900 imports, which was supposed to help the crisis at hand but quickly escalated into a trade war with the retaliating other countries.

  • Dust Bowl Beginning

    A severe drought, among other things that had ruined the soil, began the dust bowls of the 1930s

  • Dust Bowls

    A rather severe dust storm out of several other storms, causing drastic damage and cost.

  • Roosevelt

    Roosevelt is elected president and opens up the "New Deal"

  • Employment and the Economy

    The Unemployment rate reached 20.1 and national debt reached 29 Billion

  • FDR 2

    FDR began his second term in office

  • Economy and Unemployment

    The unemployment is now 14.6, national debt worsens at a whopping 51 Billion

  • Hitler

    Hitler is beginning to conqure and bomb people, mostly France and London

  • FDR 3

    Franklin Delaware Roosevelts third term begins