The Great Depression

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Great Depression

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a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II, the timing of the Great Depression varied across nations, but in most countries it started in about 1929 and lasted until the late 1930s or early 1940s, it was the longest, most widespread, and deepest depression of the 20th century

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New Deal

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a series of economic programs implemented in the United States between 1933 and 1936, they were passed by the U.S. Congress during the first term of Franklin Delano Roosevelt as President of the United States, which lasted from 1933 to 1937

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Black Tuesday

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the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, taking into consideration the full extent and duration of its fallout

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Dust Bowl

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was a period of severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936

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Gross National Product

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is the market value of all products and services produced in one year by labor and property supplied by the residents of a country

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Herbert Hoover

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a professional mining engineer and author as the United States Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s under Presidents Warren G. Harding and Calvin Coolidge, he promoted partnerships between government and business under the rubric "economic modernization", in the presidential election of 1928, Hoover easily won the Republican nomination, despite having no previous elected office experience

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Franklin D. Roosevelt

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was the 32nd President of the United States (1933-1945) and a central figure in world events during the mid-20th century, leading the United States during a time of worldwide economic crisis and world war

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20th Ammendment

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The terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin

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Frances Perkins

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was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet

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Fireside Chats

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were a series of thirty evening radio speeches given by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt between 1933 and 1944