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The Great Depression By Devin Dean

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  • The New Deal

    The New Deal
    The New Deal was a series of domestic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–1937) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

  • Black Tuesday

    Black Tuesday refers to October 29, 1929, when panicked sellers traded nearly 16 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange (four times the normal volume at the time), and the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell -12%. Black Tuesday is often cited as the beginning of the Great Depression.

  • Herbert Hoover

    Herbert Clark Hoover was the 31st President of the United States. He was a professional mining engineer and was raised as a Quaker.

  • WWll

    World War II, also known as the Second World War, was a global war that lasted from 1939 to 1945, although related conflicts began earlier.

  • Adolf Hitler

    Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the Nazi Party. He was chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945 and dictator of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. Hitler was at the centre of Nazi Germany, World War II in Europe, and the Holocaust.

  • Europe War

    Europe War
    Europe has been beset by wars throughout its history, from our earliest records to within the last couple of years. Like it or not, they have often been the agent of ...

  • Stock market

    Stock market
    A stock market crash is a sudden dramatic decline of stock prices across a significant cross-section of a stock market, resulting in a significant loss of paper wealth. Crashes are driven by panic as much as by underlying economic factors. They often follow speculative stock market bubbles. Stock market crashes are social phenomena where external economic e….

  • 4th August 1914

    4th August 1914
    1914 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Wednesday of the Julian calendar, the 1914th year of the Common Era and Anno Domini designations, the 914th year of the 2nd millennium, the 14th year of the 20th century, and the 5th year of the 1910s decade. Note that the …