Black Tuesday: The People Who Lived through the Great Depression | When the World Breaks | Timeline

Sep 27, 2020

The Dawn of the Great Depression I Slice HISTORY | Full Documentary

Sep 3, 2023 | October 24, 1929, the Wall Street Stock Exchange crashes, the greatest economic crisis of the 20th century suddenly breaks out.

Fuelled by frenetic speculation, and by the idea that everyone can get rich without limits, it puts a final stop to the euphoria of the 1920s.

America is then caught in a devastating cycle which spreads around the world a few months later like a malign infection. Documentary: 1929 - Part 1: The Crash Directed by: William Karel Production: ROCHE Productions

The Great Depression after the 1929 Financial Crash | Impossible Peace | Timeline

A look at the international upset and devastation caused by the global depression; unemployment, hyperinflation, despair are everywhere as people try to survive.

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The Great Depression 1 – A Job at Ford's

Just before the advent of the Great Depression, Henry Ford controlled the most important company in the most important industry in the booming American economy. His offer of high wages in exchange for hard work attracted workers to Detroit, but it began to come apart when Ford hired a private police force to speed up production and spy on employees. After the depression hit in 1929, these workers faced a new, grim reality as unemployment skyrocketed.

The Great Depression 2 – The Road to Rock Bottom

As the Great Depression progressed economic collapse took its toll on rural America.Crops went unsold, farm mortgages were called in by banks, hungry farmers protested, and robberies increased dramatically. The U.S. Army was called in to defend the nation's capital from veterans who were demanding that President Hoover and Congress pay a bonus for their services in World War I. The film ends with Franklin Roosevelt's landslide election to the presidency.

The Great Depression 3 – New Deal, New York

In his first one hundred days in office, in a effort to stem the effects of the Great Depression, President Roosevelt created many new federal agencies giving jobs and relief to people and transforming the American landscape with public works projects. Nowhere was this transformation more apparent than in Mayor Fiorello La Guardia's New York City. Together Roosevelt and La Guardia expanded and redefined the role of government in the lives of the American people.

The Great Depression 4 – We Have a Plan

By 1934 challenges to the New Deal came from both sides of the political spectrum. In California Socialist Upton Sinclair ran for Governor promising to turn idle land and factories into self-governing cooperatives. Sinclair's campaign ended in defeat, but one year later President Roosevelt's signing of the Social Security Act signaled America's emergence as a modern welfare state.

1929: The Great Depression

The Great Depression: 1. A Job at Ford's; 2. The Road to Rock Bottom; 3. New Deal, New York; 4. We Have a Plan; 5. Mean Things Happening; 6. To Be Somebody; 7. Arsenal of Democracy

1929: The Great Depression