The Great Depression Timeline

By LailaGCouch

  • Mein Kampf is Published

    Mein Kampf is Published
    Mein Kampf is Published on July 18, 1925. Mein Kampf is an autobiographical manifesto by Nazi Party leader Adolf Hitler. Mein Kampf describes the process of when Hitler became antisemitic and outlines his political ideology and future plans for Germany.

  • Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression

    Stock Market Crash Begins Great Depression
    On October 29, 1929 the stock market crashes. Stock prices began to decline in September and early October 1929, and on October 18 the fall began. Panic set in, and on October 24, Black Thursday, a record 12,894,650 shares were traded.Black Monday was followed by Black Tuesday, stock prices collapsed completely and 16,410,030 shares were traded on the New York Stock Exchange in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of investors.

  • Dust bowl begins

    Dust bowl begins
    The Dust Bowl Begins in 1930 and lasted for almost a decade. Severe drought hit the Midwest and Southern Great Plains in 1930. By 1934, an estimated 35 million acres of formerly cultivated land had been considered useless for farming. Another 125 million acres, an area roughly three-quarters the size of Texas, was rapidly losing its topsoil.

  • 1932 presidential election.

    1932 presidential election.
    Franklin Roosevelt is Elected President In the 1932 presidential election. The election was on Nov. 8 1932, Roosevelt defeated Republican Herbert Hoover in a landslide. This election was the first held during the Great Depression. The 1932 election represented a dramatic shift in the political alignment of the country.

  • Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany

    Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany
    Adolf Hitler Become Chancellor of Germany in 1933 following a series of electoral victories by the Nazi Party. When Hitler gained power he transformed Germany into a war state with the plan on conquering Europe for the benefit of the Aryan race.

  • CCC is Created

    CCC is Created
    The CCC, also known as the Civilian Conservation Corps, was created on April 5th, 1933. The CCC was part of Roosevelt’s New Deal legislation, combating high unemployment during the Great Depression by putting hundreds of thousands of young men to work on environmental conservation projects.

  • Olympic Games in Berlin

    Olympic Games in Berlin
    The Olympic Games in Berlin was in 1936. The 1936 Olympics were held in a tense, politically charged atmosphere. German officials made every effort to portray Germany as a respectable member of the international community. They removed anti-Jewish signs from public display and restrained anti-Jewish activities.Germany also included one part-Jew, the fencer Helene Mayer, on its Olympic team.

  • Germany Invades Poland

    Germany Invades Poland
    Germany Invades Poland on On September 1, 1939. This was also known as the September Campaign. The invasion on Poland was an attack on the Republic of Poland by Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union which marked the beginning of World War II.