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World War I ends
World War I began in 1914, after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand, and lasted until 1918. -
Wall Street Crash
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, also known as Black Tuesday, the Great Crash, or the Stock Market Crash of 1929, began in late October 1929 and was the most devastating stock market crash. -
Stock Market Crash (Black Tuesday)
In the United States, people thought their country would not become a victim of the Great Depression that had taken over Europe. However on the 29th of October the stock market crashed sending the United States into their Great Depression. -
The Dust Bowl
Along with the Great Depression was the Dust Bowl in the middle of the country. The Dust Bowl was taking place in the Great Plains. Which included Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, New Mexico and Colorado. The Dust Bowl was caused by the lack of crop rotation and basically killed the soil in the ground and drying it up causing dust storms. -
Unemployment
At the peak of the Great Depression the unemployed persons in the U.S. had reached 8.7 percent up about 5 percent from when the Great Depression had started. It was becoming a major issue with those who only had their job left to keep them going. -
Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes President
Franklin Delano Roosevelt, fifth cousin of former President Teddy Roosevelt, was raised amid privilege in Hyde Park, New York. He attended Harvard University, was elected to the New York State Senate in 1910, and served as assistant secretary of the Navy during the First World War. -
Fireside Chat
President Roosevelt delivers his first radio "fireside chat," explaining to the American people what has happened in the U.S. banking system. -
World War II begins
After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, the U.S. entered World War Two. This meant their were more job opportunities for the unemployed because supplies needed to be made to help the soliders. -
America enters WWII
Two days after the U.S. Senate voted 82 to 6 to declare war against Germany, the U.S. House of Representatives endorses the declaration by a vote of 373 to 50, and America formally enters World War I. -
End of The Great Depression
The suffering American economy was given a boost when the fighting countries needed supplies and looked to America to make them.After Pearl Harbor was bombed on December 7, 1941, America entered the war. The U.S. enlisted more than 10 million men and women into the military. Since so many were fighting in the war, it was left for those left at home to work in the factories to make supplies for the war effort.
