Timeline: The Great Depression

Nov 11, 1918

World War 1 ended

This happened because Germany had surrendered to their Allies, as they had realised (the German government ) that they had no chance of winning this war.

Jun 28, 1919

Treaty of Versailles

This was written to punish Germany for all the things that they had done in ww1. This happened in January 1919 The Treaty of Versailles was signed in the Hall of Mirrors inside the Chateau de Versailles The terms of the Treaty of Versailles are:
Borders or Blame
Land/lost of territory
The army reduced the army
Money has to be paid
Empire or economic loss of colonies
Disputes across the world

Mar 25, 1929

Stock market crash

This was when America had a sharp decline in its stock market values, which was the start of a domino effect that caused the Great Depression

Oct 29, 1929

The Great Depression Started

This happened after the crash on Wall Street, when all the markets' values crashed in America, which slowly started to affect more Countries like Britain from the lack of people. In Australia, it had a huge impact on the unemployment rate, their profits, plunging the people's incomes, heavy borrowing and falling export incomes and political instability.

Jun 17, 1930

The Smoot Hawley Tariff

This was to raise imports to protect Americans' businesses, like farmers. This added considerable strain to the international economic climate. When Smoot-Hawley raised the tariff rates in America even higher by 20%, it was signed through America's system on the 17 of June, which caused imports worldwide to decline.

1932

Franklin D Roosevelt was elected to be America president

Franklin D Roosevelt one the election in 1932 and ended the decade-long run of the Republican Presidents.

1933

The US starts to recover in spring

This was the start of the American economic recovery from the Great Depression, under the new leader, Franklin D Roosevelt

Jan 30, 1933

Gold reserve act January

Franklin D Roosevelt signed this, and his goal was to "protect the currency system of the United States for the better use of the money gold stock of the United States, and for other purposes"

1936

The drawing of the ‘migrant mother’ this shaped and change the public view on the great depression and, was published by Dorothea Lane .

Dorothea Lange, who created this picture as she was a documentary photographer, was famous for her pictures and showed the effects of the Great Depression on workers and the unemployed

1938

The Great Depression ended

The effects of the Great Depression started to fade slowly as this was the start of when it was ending, as the world's economy state was slowly recovering