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the wall street sparks the depression
lowered consumer spending, caused panic that worsened an ongoing recession, reduced corporations' assets and hurt their future prospects, and contributed to a banking crisis. -
Dust bowl begins
the name given to the drought-stricken southern plains region of the United States, which suffered severe dust storms during a drought in the 1930s. As high winds and choking dust swept the region from Texas to Nebraska, people and livestock were killed and crops failed across the entire region. -
Food riots and banks collapse
several hundred men and women smash the windows of a grocery market and make off with fruit, canned goods, bacon, and ham. -
president Roosevelt is elected
Roosevelt was the 26th president -
The first hundred days and he new deal
immediately summoned the United States Congress into a three-month (nearly 100-day) special session, during which he presented and was able to rapidly get passed a series of 15 major bills designed to counter the effects of the Great Depression. -
National recovery administrative (NRA) begins 7,000 men work in CCC camps
men get jobs and work in big camps -
creation of the works progress administration
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) was an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Franklin Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest days of the Great Depression. -
president Roosevelt elected for a second term
elected a second time because people liked him so much -
start of WW2
Germany wanted to take all power of Europe -
$1 billion spent on armed forces unemployment
spent a lot of money to help with the war and to win it