World after WWI
Causes of the Great Depression
Response to the Great Depression
100

This continent was devasted after WWI.

What is the economic state of Europe after WWI?

100

The stock market crashed on this day, which led to the mass panic selling of stocks.

What is Black Thursday?

100

This man was the President during this era and came up with a series of "New Deals"

Who is Franklin D. Roosevelt?

200

This country became an economic superpower

What is America after WWI?

200

Too many products were being produced and not enough people were buying.

What is overproduction?

200

Roosevelt aimed for Recovery, Relief, and Reform.

What were Roosevelt's New Deals aiming for?

300

Demand for crops drops, leaving farmers with overproduction and quickly dwindling incomes. Many lose farmland to foreclosure as they are unable to pay off debts.

What are the troubles in the agriculture sector?

300

Banks start collapsing and people lose their entire savings accounts as banks are unable to keep up with large numbers of cash withdraws

What is the bank collapse?

300
This new law offered funds to the elderly and disabled, which previously was not afforded.

What is the Social Security Act?

400

Mass economic boom in America which people have extra money to spend and have little worry for the economy.

What is the Roaring 20s?

400

This went largely ignored as more and more people took out loans and did not pay them back. They used these loans to buy anything from stocks to new appliances, to cars.

What is the economic "bubble"?

400

New federal laws were put into place to protect bank deposits and prevent another mass bank collapse.

What is FDIC?

500

The top 1% owned more wealth than the bottom 90% combined, and it was steadily growing. A large portion of Americans lived in poverty.

What is wealth inequality? 

500

More and more people were given lay-offs and told not to come to work. Many businesses could no longer afford their workforce if they wished to stay open (and many did not in the end).

What is unemployment?

500

Roosevelt aims to squash unemployment by hiring young men and women for jobs ranging from farming federally owned lands to public works projects such as road building or mural painting.

What is WPA and the CCC?

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