Big events
Was the Great Depression a global crisis or an American crisis?
A global crisis, it happened all over the world not just in America.
What would people do to distract from the Depression?
They would go to the movies, play board games and find joy in music, especially jazz.
What year did the Great Depression start?
1929
Who was Herbert Hoover?
He was the American president at the time.
___ was the president when the Great Depression began.
Herbert Hoover
What is Black Tuesday?
October 29th is when the stock market crashed.
Why were the 1930s called the "Dirty Thirties"?
The Dust Bowl forced people to leave their homeland and destroyed farmland.
What year did the Great Plains happen?
1930.
Who allowed them to feed their family and give welfare to people so they could survive?
The governement
The U.S. entered World War II in ___, helping end the Great depression.
1941.
What was the Great Plains?
The Great Plains were devastated by the Dust Bowl, a severe drought.
What were some of the major effects on the Americans?
Americans were left homeless, jobless and in a worldspread poverty. This left them needing help from the soup kitchens and charity.
When did people distract themselves from the Great Depression?
1929 intto the late 1930s.
National Socialists of Canada
They wanted one person to have control and not a democracy.
The Great Depression began after the stock market crashed in ___?
1929.
How did the Great Depression End?
World War II started which put an end to the Great Depression.
How did the Great Depression affect the farmers?
In the 1920s, there was an overproduction of food, which led to food prices being low. The farmers were poor and needed to take out loans to survive.
What year did the dust bowl and all the poverty make many banks go bankrupt?
1930
Did the catholic churches believe that agriculture was a good way to increase food income?
Yes, they thought it was time to go back to the old habits because it worked well in the past.
Many families listen to ___ music to lift their spirits during the Depression.
Jazz
What started the Great Depression?
The crash of the stock market.
What happened to the farmer's family when they got really poor in the 1920s?
They would make their children drop out of school and make their children work to bring in more income.
What was the Great Depression, and when did it occur?
The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic downturn which occurred from 1929 to about 1939.
Who in 1936 became the premier to try to change the effects of the Great Depression?
Maurice Duplessis
The environment disaster that distroyed farms in the 1930s was called the___?
Dust Bowl.