1. The Depression in the U.S. and the Road to War
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2. What’s goin’ on?! Stock Market Crash and Depression
Massive government programs in the NEW DEAL
Dust Storms in the Plains states and Migration West
The U.S. moves closer to War in Europe and in the Pacific

3. Stock Market Crash and Depression

4. Causes of the Stock Market Crash
1. Buying on Margin- Put up 10% of your money to invest and get the rest on loan to buy stocks.
2. Overspeculation- too many people buying stocks thus inflating the value
3. Unregulated stock market- Were companies being truthful?
4. Federal Reserve raised interest rates which slowed demand.

7. Great Depression Breadline
                                             
Great Depression Breadline

8. What is a Hooverville?

18. Causes of the Great Depression
Many independent banks failed
Interest rates were raised before the crash and were raised again after the crash by the Federal Reserve.
The Stock Market Crash
Overproduction of goods (Too much inventory)
The gap between the rich and the poor was too great.
Hawley Smoot Tariff- we stopped buying other country’s goods and they stopped buying ours.
There are still more explanations….

19. The New Deal Relief, Reform, and Recovery

20. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1933-1945) Elected to 4 terms
                 

21. Civilian Conservation Corp

23. Tennessee Valley Authority

25. Public Works Administration

26. Notable New Deal Measures
Social Security Act- today limited benefits at 62, full benefits at 67 , and full benefits + at 70.
FDIC- Your bank deposits are insured up to $250,000 by the federal government.

27. Dust Storms in the Plains

35. War on the Horizon
Hitler Takes power in Germany in January of 1933

36. Mussolini takes Ethiopia in 1936

37. Japan invades Manchuria in 1931
                               
                               
                               
Japan invades Manchuria in 1931
                                                            
The Rape of Nanking occurs in Japan starts to create a Pacific empire.

38. German imperialism Hitler rushes to create a huge German State
Takes Austria and Czechoslovakia.
Sept Germany invades Poland. This begins the war in Europe. The U.S. remains neutral.

39. The U.S. would remain Neutral for two more years until the Japanese bombed Pearl Harbor. A few days after, Germany would declare war on the U.S.