Roaring 20s, Depression, and WW2

By Ryton

  • Cancelled Governement Contract

    USA government cancelled billions of dollars that manufactured armory for the war.
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    The Roaring 20s

  • Stock Market Crash

    Investors sell off sales and shares, a record of 12.9 million shares were traded and on this day is now known as Black Thursday. Five days later on Black Tuesday, 16 million more shares were traded.
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    The Great Depression

  • Franklin D. Roosevelt

    In 1932 Roosevelt won against Hoover in the election.

  • American Unemployment

    By 1933, about 15 million were unemployed and half the country's banks had failed.

  • Social Security

    In 1935 congress passed the Social Security Act, which for the first time provided Americans with unemployment, disability and pensions for old age.