The Great Depression1929-1939

By: Mustafa Azam and Hesham Atoui

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.

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 Effects of DepressionDepression

13 million unemployed13 million unemployed 5,000 Banks collapsed5,000 Banks collapsed From 1929-1932From 1929-1932 Prices went up for Prices went up for

everythingeverything 110 deaths from lack of 110 deaths from lack of

nutrientsnutrients

Graphs showing the unemployment in that time of the great depression / unemployment rate

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

• Started the Great Depression• Companies were out of business• Food prices went higher• Starvations and deaths

The Impact the Crash had on the Economy

The effects of the Depression where on American people.

• There was high unemployment• Banks collapsed• a lot of people didn’t have jobs • People didn’t buy products• companies Got out of business too much of

everything and things not being used

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 Hoover

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.

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.