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After the Wall Street Crash of 1929, when the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped from 381 to 198 over the course of two months, optimism persisted for some time. The stock market rose in early 1930, with the Dow returning to 294 (pre-depression levels) in April 1930, before steadily declining for years, to a low of 41 in 1932.
US annual real GDP from 1910 to 1960, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–1939) highlighted Unemployment rate in the US 1910–60, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–39) highlighted; accurate data begins in 1939, represented by a blue line. The Depression caused major political changes in America.
Crowd at New York's American Union Bank during a bank run early in the Great Depression. Together, the 1929 stock market crash and the Great Depression formed the largest financial crisis of the 20th century. [45] The panic of October 1929 has come to serve as a symbol of the economic contraction that gripped the world during the next decade. [46]
December 3 – Great Depression: U.S. President Herbert Hoover announces to the U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market crash are behind the nation, and that the American people have regained faith in the economy.
That's where America finds itself on the 80th anniversary of the Great Depression -- reacting to With the news that another devastating economic implosion may be nearing its end.
Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression. Much of Evans' New Deal work uses the large format, 8 × 10-inch (200×250 mm) view camera. He ...
Tales of the Depression are woven with a common thread: Even though most people had very little, those with a little more helped those with a little less. Families who had fallen on hard times ...
The Economies of Africa and Asia in the Iinter-war Depression (1989) Davis, Joseph S. The World Between the Wars, 1919–39: An Economist's View (1974) Drinot, Paulo, and Alan Knight, eds. The Great Depression in Latin America (2014) excerpt; Eichengreen, Barry. Golden Fetters: The gold standard and the Great Depression, 1919–1939. 1992 ...