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The Great Depression and Surrounding Events

By Corrinn

  • Unemployment at 3.2%

    Unemployment at 3.2%
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    The Great Depression

  • Stock Market Collapses

    Stock Market Collapses

  • 8.9% unemployment in 1930

    8.9% unemployment in 1930

  • Major Bank Collapse

    Major Bank Collapse
    Unemployment for 1931 at 16.3% New York's Bank of United States loses $200million in deposits and results in the biggest bank failure in American history.

  • Roosevelt Elected

    Roosevelt Elected
    Roosevelt defeats Hoover in a landslide election. Unemployment in 1932 at 24.1%

  • 21.7% unemployment in 1934

    21.7% unemployment in 1934

  • Sweatshop

    Sweatshop
    Some time durin 1935, Boris Gorelick finished his work "Sweatshop"

  • Huey Long Assassinated

    Huey Long Assassinated
    In the Louisiana Captial building, "Share Our Wealth Society" founder is assassinated.

  • 20.1% Unemployment for the Year

    20.1% Unemployment for the Year

  • FDR Re-Elected

    FDR Re-Elected
    Unemployment in 1936 at 16.9%, then at 14.3% in 1937.

  • Last Shift

    Last Shift
    Sometime during 1937, Michael J. Gallagher completes his lithograph "Last Shift"

  • 19% Unemployment for the Year

    19% Unemployment for the Year

  • Line Up

    Line Up
    Eli Jacob completes "Line Up"

  • 17.2% Unemployment rate

    17.2% Unemployment rate

  • Mobilization Lifts Economy

    Mobilization Lifts Economy
    The attack on Pearl Harbor leads to mobilization of U.S. troops, ending the Depression.