Timeline: The Great Depression Zach Lavin

  • The Stock Market Crash of 1929

    The Stock Market Crash of 1929
    Caused the Great Depression.
  • Reparation Postponement for Germany

     Reparation Postponement for Germany
    The allies allowed Germany a few months to pay back reparations due to near bankruptcy.
  • New Yorks' Bank of The US Collapses

    New Yorks' Bank of The US Collapses
    At the time of the collapse, the bank had over $200 million in deposits, making it the largest single bank failure in the nation's history.
  • 11,000 Banks Out of 25,000 Closed

    11,000 Banks Out of 25,000 Closed
    Due to people taking all thier money out of the banks, many banks had to be shut down.
  • Three Thousand Unemployed Workers March On the Ford Motor Company's Plant in River Rouge, Michigan.

    Three Thousand Unemployed Workers March On the Ford Motor Company's Plant in River Rouge, Michigan.
    Dearborn police and Ford's company guards attack the workers, killing four and injuring many more.
  • Hitler Comes to Power.

    Hitler Comes to Power.
    Lead to WW2 and the Holocaust.
  • The New Deal

    The New Deal
    The New Deal was a series of programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1938, and a few that came later. They included both laws passed by Congress as well as presidential executive orders during the first term (1933–1937) of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • 21st Amendment

    21st Amendment
    Overturned the 18th amendment, ending the prohibition.
  • Longshoremen Strike

    Longshoremen Strike
    A West Coast longshoremen's strike, conducted with significant aid from the Communist Party, paralyzes shipping and trade in California, Oregon, and Washington. The strike ends with a victory for the longshoremen's union with cooperation between the longshoremen and West Coast Communists representing the first successful venture of the so-called "Popular Front" between Communists and liberals.
  • Huey Long Assassinated

    Huey Long Assassinated
    Huey Long is assassinated inside the Louisiana Capitol Building.
  • Nazi Rally in New York City

    Nazi Rally in New York City
    The German-American Bund stages a huge rally of fascist sympathizers supporting what they call "True Americanism" in Madison Square Garden in New York. Anti-Semitic Hitler admirer and Bund leader Fritz Kuhn calls Franklin Roosevelt "Frank Rosenfeld," and the New Deal "The Jew Deal."
  • Roosevelt is Elected President

    Roosevelt is Elected President
    Roosevelt was elected for his third term.