The Great Depression Timeline

1929

*The Stock Market crashes making it hard for to keep jobs and have money to live with.

1930

*3.2 million people are unemployed and 1.5 million lost their jobs during the “Crash”.

1931

*Thousands of unemployed workers marched on the Ford Company’s planet in River Rouge.

1932

*More than 750,000 New Yorkers are reported to be dependent upon city relief with 160,000 on a waiting list.

1933

*President Roosevelt, under the emergency Banking Act, puts an end to the gold standard.

1934

· The Great Dust Storm blows an estimated 350 million tons of soul off of the Terrain.

1935

*FDR signs the Wagner National Labor Relations Act which legalized unions collective bargaining for labor unions.

*The Social Security Act of 1935 is signed into law by FDR.

1936

*FDR is elected to his second term but expect Maine and Vermont.

1937

*United Automobile Workers strike at the General Motors plant in Flint, Michigan.

1938

*FDR asks Congress to authorize 3.75 billion in federal spending to gets the economy going.

1940

*Franklin Roosevelt is elected to third term. He defeated Wendell Willkie.

Dec. 7, 1941

*Pearl Harbor started World War II which ended the Great Depression.