1. THE DEPRESSION AND FDR
THE GREAT DEPRESSION

2. THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Stock market crash (1929)

4. BLUE CHIP STOCKS

5. THE GREAT DEPRESSION Structurally flawed economy Factors:
Borrowing on credit—leads to bank failures
Business failures
Decline in certain industries
Unemployment and layoffs
Huge gap between rich and poor
The Depression in human terms

6. Dawes Plan (1924) Cycle of payments to ease financial problems
After the stock market crash of 1929, US banks stop loans to Germany and Dawes Plan collapses

8. THE GREAT DEPRESSION
Hoover’s Response to the Great Depression

13. THE DEPRESSION AND FDR
ROOSEVELT’S NEW DEAL

14. FDR and the New Deal

15. FDR and the New Deal

16. FDR and the New Deal The Hundred Days
Reform of the banking system and the stock market
Emergency Banking Relief Act
Relief
Recovery
Reform

17. FDR and the New Deal The Hundred Days
Relief
--Public Works
Administration (PWA)

18. FDR and the New Deal The Hundred Days
Reform of agriculture and industry
TVA

19. LIFE DURING THE DEPRESSION
THE DEPRESSION AND FDR
LIFE DURING THE DEPRESSION

31. Golden Age of Hollywood
Escapism

35. THE DEPRESSION AND FDR
EFFECTS OF THE NEW DEAL

36. FDR and the New Deal The Second New Deal Social Security (1935)
Works Progress Administration
(1935)
WPA – Flood control, AR, 1939

37. FDR and the New Deal End of the New Deal & Second New Deal
Problems by 1937
”Roosevelt Recession”