The Grapes of Wrath 1929-1939

By Madi_ellyse

  • Bank faliure

    1932 10000 banks have failed since 1929, that’s 40%

  • Stock market crash

    October 1929- stock market crashed sent wall street into panic and eliminated investors
  • Period: to

    During The grapes of wrath

  • Great Depression

    1929 The Great Depression began making million unemployed

  • Nazi political party

    1929 German Nazi’s are the second largest political party

  • Franklin Rosevelt

    1932 Franklin Roosevelt elected U.S. president

  • The new deal

    January 11, 1933 The New Deal

  • Hitler

    January 30, 1933 Hitler is elected chancellor

  • Height of the Great Depression

    1933 13-15 million americans were unemployed during the great depression. The great depression was at its height

  • Golden Gates

    1937 Golden Gate bridge opened

  • Dustbowl

    April 14, 1934 Dustbowl

  • Fuehrer

    August 13, 1934 Adolf Hitler elected Fuehrer of Germany

  • San Fran Strike

    1934 San Francisco became center for the West Coast waterfront strike. It lasted 83 days.

  • Kristallnacht

    November 9-10 1938 Kristallnacht

  • U.S. armed forces

    U.S. puts 1 billion into armed forces

  • World War II

    September 1939 Germany invades Poland, starting World War II and the eventual end of The Great Depression.