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Saturday, September 4, 2021

Basic timeline of the Great Depression in the United States

Photo source: Wikimedia Commons, Associated Press

This post is basic timeline of the Great Depression in the United States. There are 14 events listed below chronologically.

• Wall Street crash begins (Sept. 4th, 1929)
• Black Thursday (Oct. 24th, 1929)
• Black Tuesday (Oct. 29th, 1929)
• Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act of 1930
• New Deal programs (1933-1939)
• Civilian Conservation Corps is formed (1933)
• National Recovery Administration is formed (1933)
• Federal Reserve abandons the gold standard (1933)
• Emergency Banking Act (1933)
• Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation is formed (1933)
• Works Progress Administration (1935)
• Social Security Act (1935)
• Recession of 1937-1938
• U.S. government increases military spending for World War II (1940)

Sources

Wikipdia: Great Depression in the United States, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation