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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.
Thank You