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The elected president for this year was, Herbert Hoover, a mining engineer from Iowa who had never run for public office.
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On this day, stocks plummeted and people that invested on them with credit were now deep in debt.
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Congress passes the Hawley-Smoot Tariff, designed to protect American farmers and, manufacturers from foreign competition.
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8.02 million Americans are unemployed
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Franklin Roosevelt is elected president
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Adolf Hitler uses desperate times to take power in Germany.
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Windstorms known to hit Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas, New Mexico, and Colorado the hardest in the U.S.
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Unemployment averages at 20.1% for the year of 1935
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Roosevelt re-elected as president.
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Profits and wages return to their early 1929 levels
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Economy improves again in 1938 and employment rates improving are prolonged until the of the decade.
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Hitler’s aggression causes war to break out in Europe.
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The Great Depression is merely ended with the start of this war caused by Hitler and his attack and invasion on Poland
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After being attacked by the Japanese at Pearl Harbor, the U.S. fights along the Allies against the Axis party.
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Unemployment rate goes to under 1 million between 1942 and 1943
