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Title: Alex Thompson and


1
The Great Depression
  • By,
  • Alex Thompson and
  • Nicole Sanders

2
Timeline
  • 1929 stock market
  • 1932 Hoover
  • 1933 FDR
  • 1933 government programs
  • 1933 Hitler
  • 1935 social security act
  • 1937 Supreme Court
  • 1939 Poland

3
Peoples fears in life during theGreat depression
  • Physical impact on the entire nation
  • Fear of losing jobs
  • People become depressed
  • Thousands went hungry
  • Children suffered
  • People grew food

4
Family problems
  • Families crowded into small houses
  • Divorce went down
  • Men could not support their families
  • Women were blamed for taking mens jobs

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Unemployment
  • 1933-millions were out of work
  • Bread lines
  • Thousands roamed the country
  • Civilian Conservation Corps
  • Men worked in work camps

7
Entertainment During the Great Depression
  • Radio
  • Comedies, gangster movies, and musicals
  • 1930s big bands,
  • and swing music
  • 1940s singers
  • War songs became popular
  • Government programs

8
Causes of the Great Depression
  • Speculation in the 1920s
  • Economy not stable
  • Stock market crashed-1929
  • Short signed government
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