In the United States, the Great Depression is commonly dated to the Wall Street crash of October 1929. The nadir came in 1931–1933, and recovery came in 1940. The stock market crash marked the beginni
Dorothea Lange's 1936 photo Migrant Mother is an iconic photograph associated with the Great Depression.
Unemployed men outside a soup kitchen in Chicago, 1931
A $10 US gold certificate. The U.S. used the gold standard until 1934 and controlled nearly half of the global gold supply during the inter-war period.
Approaching dust storm near Stratford, Texas. April 18, 1935.
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The New Deal was a 1933–1938 series of economic, social, and political reforms in response to the Great Depression in the United States under President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He introduced the phrase
Great Depression in the United States
…for not doing enough to combat the crisis, lost the election of 1932 to Franklin D. Roosevelt by a landslide. Roosevelt's economic recovery plan, the New Deal, instituted unprecedented programs for relief, recovery and reform, and caused a major alignment of politics with social liberalism and a retreat of…
Top left: Signing of the Tennessee Valley Authority Act, 1933 Top right: President Franklin D. Roosevelt Bottom: Works Progress Administration public mural
1935 cartoon by Vaughn Shoemaker in which he parodied the New Deal as a card game with alphabetical agencies
Roosevelt's ebullient public personality, conveyed through his declaration that "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself" and his "fireside chats" on the radio did a great deal to help restore the nation's confidence
Public Works Administration Project Bonneville Dam