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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!