The Great Depression

  • Prohibition

    Prohiting the sale of any kind of alcohol
  • harding Landslide

    Won to be the president over %60 of the primary votes
  • Tarrifs

    Rising tarrif duties
  • Ford motors

    Ford motors
    The company exceeds more than 1 million dollars
  • Period: to

    Great depression

  • Stock market crash

    most devastating in americans history
  • hoover dam

    hoover dam
    Ray Lyman Wilbur, Secretary of the Interior under President Hoover, drives a silver railroad spike to mark the official start of the construction of the Hoover Dam.
  • dust storm

    dust storm
    A dust storm ravages several Midwestern and Western states including Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Kansas, and Colorado, forcing hundreds of families to leave their farms.
  • athlete

    athlete
    African American athlete Jesse Owens wins four gold medals at the Berlin Olympics in front of Adolf Hitler, who has recently begun his campaign for the "dominance" of the Aryan race.
  • radio show

    radio show
    Orson Welles voices protagonist Lamont Cranston on the radio show, The Shadow.