Great Depression: Timeline

1926   Freeman Gosden and Charles Correll premiere their radio Radio

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 program ''Sam 'n' Henry'', in which the two white performers portrayed two black characters from Harlem looking for extra money during the Depression Great Depression

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. It was a precursor to Gosden and Correll's more popular later program, ''Amos 'n' Andy''.

1929   Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover

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 announces to U.S. Congress that the worst effects of the recent stock market Stock market

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 crash are behind the nation and the American people have regained faith in the economy Economics

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.

1930   Great Depression: US President Herbert Hoover Herbert Hoover

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 goes before Congress and asks for a US$150 million public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy Economics

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.

1933   American President Herbert Clark Hoover is succeeded by Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt

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, who in reference to the Great Depression, gives his "We have nothing to fear, but fear itself" inauguration speech.

1933   Great Depression: President President of the United States

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 Franklin D. Roosevelt Franklin D. Roosevelt

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 declares a "bank holiday", closing all United States United States

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 banks and freezing all financial transactions (the 'holiday' ended on March 13).

1933   Great Depression: Franklin Delano Roosevelt addresses the nation for the first time as President of the United States President of the United States

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. This was also the first of his "Fireside Chats".

1933   Great Depression: New Deal New Deal

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 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million of the unemployed.

1938   Great Depression: In an effort to try restore investor confidence, the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange

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 unveils a fifteen-point program aimed to upgrade protection for the investing publi

1943   Great Depression ends in the United States United States

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: With unemployment figures falling fast due to World War II World War II

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-related employment, US President Franklin D. Roosevelt closes the Works Progress Administration.

1978   Cleveland, Ohio Cleveland, Ohio

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 becomes the first major American city to go into default since the Great Depression, under Mayor Dennis Kucinich.