The Great Depression

By KatieEdwards

  • 1928

    1928
    Hoover is elected president

  • 1929

    1929
    Stock Market crash

  • 1930

    1930
    Hoover promises America the crash will recover in 60 days

  • 1931

    1931
    construction started for the Hoover dam

  • 1932

    1932
    Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected 32nd president and promises a new deal

  • 1933

    1933
    AAA ( Agriculture adjustment act) was created

  • 1934

    1934
    SEC (securities and exchange commission) was created

  • 1935

    1935
    WPA (work progress administration) was created

  • 1936

    1936
    Hoover Damn open to the public

  • 1937

    1937
    the US housing act established in 1937 the first public housing

  • 1938

    1938
    leaders of Nazi Germany, France, Great Britain, and Italy signed an agreement that allowed the Nazis to annex Sudetenland.

  • 1939

    1939
    World War 2 starts