Roaring 20s & The Great Deprssion

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    Roaring 20's

  • Stock Market Crashes

    Stock Market Crashes
    The stock market crashes, leading USA into the Great Depression.

  • Stock Market Crash

    Stock market crash begins October 24. Investors call October 29 "Black Tuesday." Losses for the month will total $16 billion, an astronomical sum in those days.

  • Dust Bowl

    Dust Bowl
    The Dust Bowl was caused by the lack of crop rotation and basically killed the soil in the ground and drying it up causing dust storms.

  • New President

    New President
    FDR takes presidential office.

  • Unemployment Rate

    Unemployment Rate
    The unemployment rate went to its highest at 25%

  • NRA

    NRA
    The Supreme Court declares the National Recovery Administration to be unconstitutional.

  • Tax Rate Increases

    Tax Rate Increases
    Top tax rate raised to 79 percent.

  • Stimulate the Budget

    Stimulate the Budget
    FDR asked Congress for an additional $3.75 billion to stimulate the still floundering economy

  • WW2 Starts

    WW2 Starts
    World War II starts with Hitler's invasion of Poland.

  • WW2 Prepares

    WW2 Prepares
    Preperations for WW1 bring the USA out from the Great Depression.