Saturday, September 4, 2021

Basic timeline of the Great Depression in the United States


Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Associated Press

This post is basic timeline of the Great Depression in the United States. There are 14 events listed below chronologically.

  • Wall Street crash begins (Sept. 4th, 1929)
  • Black Thursday (Oct. 24th, 1929)
  • Black Tuesday (Oct. 29th, 1929)
  • Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930
  • New Deal programs (1933-1939)
  • Civilian Conservation Corps is formed (1933)
  • National Recovery Administration is formed (1933)
  • Federal Reserve abandons the gold standard (1933)
  • Emergency Banking Act (1933)
  • Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is formed (1933)
  • Works Progress Administration (1935)
  • Social Security Act (1935)
  • Recession of 1937-1938
  • U.S. government increases military spending for World War II (1940)
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