Steinbeck and the Depression

Steinbeck's Life

Period: Feb 27, 1902 to Dec 20, 1968

Steinbeck's Life

Stock Market Crash

Oct 29, 1929

Stock Market Crashes!

Timeline of the Great Depression

Oct 29, 1929

Timeline of Great Depression

President Hoover Leaves Office

Mar 4, 1933

Hoover leaves the Presidency

Roosevelt Takes Office

Mar 4, 1933

President Roosevelt Takes Office

Drought of the Dust Bowl Years

Nov 11, 1933

Drought of the Dust Bowl

The Dust Bowl

May 11, 1934

The Dust Bowl during The Great Depression

Steinbeck publishes Of Mice and Men

Feb 6, 1937

Steinbeck publishes Of Mice and Men

Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath

Apr 14, 1939

Steinbeck publishes The Grapes of Wrath

Japan Bombs Pearl Harbor

Dec 7, 1941

Depression comes to end with Bombing of Pearl Harbor