The Great Depression

By: Ramyasree Kaja

The Great Depression By:

Ramyasree Kaja

● The Great Depression was a

severe worldwide economic

depression.

● 1930.

● It was the longest, deepest,

depression of the 20th

century.

● Stock Markets crashed,

people went on strikes, most

people with jobs lost their

jobs.

● 1940’s.

What was the Great

Depression?

Timeline

The Great

Depression

started.

1930

1929

The Stock

Market

crashed.

1931

Food Riots began by

many unemployed

people.

New York’s

bank collapsed

making it the

largest single

bank failure in

the nation's

history.

1933

Three thousand

unemployed people

went on strike,

attacking many

workers.

1934

A three-day dust

storm blows an

estimated 350 million

tons of soil off.

1935

The depression was

starting to go ahead

in production.

1936

Still many people

were ragged,

hungry, and broke.

1937

United Automobile Workers go

on strike, but turns violent.

1940

The great

depression finally

ends.

● Wall Street Crash in 1929.

● Devastating stock market crash in

the history of the United States.

● The big start for depression.

Black Tuesday

-people went on

strike and had a

lot of gathering

● Rich grew richer.

● Poor grew poorer.

● Middle class became poor.

Richer and the Poor

Interesting Fact: Herbert

Hoover won election in 1932.

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