A Long Way From Chicago and the Great Depression

WWI Ends

Nov 1, 1918

Roaring Twenties

Jan 1, 1920

Economy Flourished
People Invested in Stocks
Bought on Credit
Big Bands
Gangsters
Prohibition

"Shotgun Cheatam's Last Night Above Ground"

Aug 1, 1929

Tramp
Jesse James
Al Capone
Bugs Moran Home-made beer
Valentine's Day Massacre
Hupmobile
Hupmobile

Stock Market Crashes/ Great Depression Begins

Oct 29, 1929

"Black Tuesday"
Valentines Day Massacre
Banks fail
People lost jobs+homes
Bread/soup lines
"Hoovervilles"
Hoboes
Drought begins in Great Plains
Golden Age of Radio

Economy Slows

Jan 1, 1930

Great Depression
Banks Failed
People Lost Jobs and Homes
Bread/Soup Lines
"Hoovervilles"
Hoboes
Drought Begins in Great Plains
Golden Age of Radio

"The Mouse in the Milk"

Aug 1, 1930

Milkman
Privy
Horse and wagon
Hoover
Charles Lindbergh
Coolidge
House wakes

Freight Car Migrants

Jan 1, 1931

"A One-Woman Crime Wave"

Aug 1, 1931

Milkman
Privy
Horse and wagon
Hoover
Charles Lindbergh
Coolidge
House wakes

"The Day of Judgement"

Aug 1, 1932

Barnstormers
Charles Lindbergh
Hupmobile
Biplane
Banks

FDR Elected

Nov 1, 1932

"The New Deal"
Job Corps
Prohibition Ends

"The Phantom Brakeman"

Jan 1, 1933

Shirley Temple
FDR
Nehi Soda

New Deal/Public Works Project

Mar 1, 1933

FDR Elected
Job Corps
Prohibition Ends

Dust Bowl

Jan 1, 1934

People to head to California for jobs

"Things With Wings"

Aug 1, 1934

Day-Old Bread
Dracula movie
John Dillinger
Hudson Motor Company
Terraplane

"Centennial Summer"

Aug 1, 1935

FDR Elected to 2nd Term

Nov 1, 1936

USA Enters WWII/Great Depression Ends

Dec 1, 1941

Pearl Harbor bombed
Men/Women had jobs

"The Troop Train"

Aug 1, 1942

WWII
Telegram

WWII Ends

Sep 1, 1945

Allies win
Troops come home
"Baby Boom"