by: mustafa azam and hesham atoui the great depression 1929-1939
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By: Mustafa Azam and Hesham Atoui
The great depression 1929-1939
Why there was a Great Depression
The great depression (also known as the great crash) started because the stock market crashed.
It was on Tuesday October 29 1929 but it really had started on Thursday October 24 1929 because they couldn’t keep up with the, market tracking and the market fell 33 points or 9%. Share prices fell 15 - 20%, causing a stock market crash.
This kept happening until black Tuesday and then everything fell apart.
People in the great depressionBanks closing
Graphs showing the great market crash in 1929
Why the depression of 1929 was so severe and sudden.
World war one had just ended and then after it the great depression also world war 2 was during the great depression.
So the war had ended and so it had started going up slowly and then all of a sudden it went done.
There were signs that men had to keep moving if they didn’t have jobs so many people didn’t have a job.
Pictures showing how desperate they were.
A sign saying that people who have no job keep going.
Effects of Depression Graphs showing the unemployment in
that time of the great depression / unemployment rate
Prices went up for everything
110 deaths from lack of nutrients
13 million unemployed
From 1929-1939
5,000 Banks collapsed
Causes of the Wall Street Crash and Depression Too many goods were made Farmers produced too much
produce Too many small banks out of
business Companies taking risks America gave huge amount of
money to Europe European banks collapsed
Farmers
Life in the Great Depression ¾ of all workers worked
part- time People lived in small
places Kicked out of houses Couldn’t afford medical
care and bought used food Couples had to delay
weddings
People kicked out of there houses
The Impact the Crash had on the Economy
Companies were out of business
Food prices went higher
Starvations and deaths
Started the Great Depression
The effects of the Depression where on American people.
The effects of the Depression where
on American people.
Too much of everything and things not being
used.
Companies got out of business.
People didn’t buy products.
There was high unemployment.
Banks collapsed.
The wall street was the main cause of the great depression
The wall street was the main cause of the great depression because they had lost to mush money and fell points and they didn’t have enough to hire a lot of people so then many would be in need of money for shelter, food and water but if they didn’t have a job how would they afford it.
How the Great Depression Ended Herbert Hoover made it worse The FDR expanded the economy Made prices lower from 1933-1937 Another depression from 1937-1938
Herbert HooverFDR
Here are questions to answer. If you don’t know them we told you to wake up and listen so too bad!
Questions When did the great depression begin? Why did the great depression? How many people were unemployed? Who expanded the economy? What happened before the great depression. Give some things that caused the wall street
crash.
If you answered a question, you will get a
prize!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!