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The Wall Street Crash Sparks The Depression
All of the stock America had are starting to fall and they are going down economically and the people are starting to become unemployed because of losing their job due to money cuts. -
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Great Depression and Dust Bowl
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The dust bowl begins
this time is when all of America gets a big drought and their land is all dried up so they cant grow crops and the soil is so non compact that it was flying around everywhere with the wind. -
dust bowl events
When Franklin Roosevelt takes office, the country is in desperate straits. He will take quick steps to declare a four-day bank holiday, during which time Congress will come up with the Emergency Banking Act of 1933, which stabilizes the banking industry and restores people’s faith in the banking system by putting the federal government behind it. -
Creation of the Works Progress Administration
January 1: Support for the Townsend Plan grows, with more than 5,000 Townsend Clubs nationwide bringing together more than 2 million members. Even more, around 25 million Americans asked their representatives to support the plan in Washington by signing petitions.February 1: There are 27,000 clubs in the Share Our Wealth society across the country, with 7.5 million Americans on the mailing list. August: Income is provided to the elderly, blind and disabled thanks to the Social Security Act. -
dust bowl events
The federal government forms a Drought Relief Service to coordinate relief activities. The DRS buys cattle in counties that are designated emergency areas, for $14 to $20 a head. Those unfit for human consumption – more than 50 percent at the beginning of the program – are destroyed. The remaining cattle are given to the Federal Surplus Relief Corporation to be used in food distribution to families nationwide. -
Dust bowl events
Congress declares soil erosion “a national menace” in an act establishing the Soil Conservation Service in the Department of Agriculture (formerly the Soil Erosion Service in the U.S. Department of Interior). Under the direction of Hugh H. Bennett, the SCS will develop extensive conservation programs that retain topsoil and prevent irreparable damage to the land. Farming techniques such as strip cropping, terracing, crop rotation, contour plowing, and cover crops are advocated. -
Economic Growth
The economy started to grow again this year, eventually bringing the country out of the Great Depression. However, unemployment rates were still extremely high. -
Dust Bowl Events
The extensive work re-plowing the land into furrows, planting trees in shelterbelts, and other conservation methods has resulted in a 65 percent reduction in the amount of soil blowing. However, the drought continues. -
The Start of World War Two
November: With the invasion of Poland by Hitler and the start of the Second World War, President Roosevelt persuaded Congress to remove the military arms embargo to France and Britain to support them during the war. From this year to 1941, when Pearl Harbor is attacked by the Japanese, manufacturing in the United States will have increased to 50%. -
United States Enters The War
December 7: When the United States enters the war following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, the country is finally able to get out of the Great Depression by mobilizing for war. At the end of the Second World War, despite its devastating effects, the United States would emerge as the only economic superpower in the world.