great depresion

-the beginnings of an irresponsible and/or over-regulatory welfare state.
-great depression

-a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II
-1929-to the late 30's early 40's
- caused social, political, and econmic difficulties

-crash signaled the beginning of the 12-year Great Depression that affected all Western industrialized countries
-October 1929
- the crash did not cause the depression but was the start of a domino effect

-severe dust storms causing major ecological and agricultural damage to American and Canadian prairie lands from 1930 to 1936

- how much income a nation relieves overall in total
- crashed in America, lowest point in history

- tried to make more voluntaryaction
- first half of great depression
- lowered taxes and passed new deal

- was the pres, after hoover
-elected during g.d
- tried to make 1st and 2nd deal people respected him

the terms of the President and Vice President shall end at noon on the 20th day of January, and the terms of Senators and Representatives at noon on the 3d day of January, of the years in which such terms would have ended if this article had not been ratified; and the terms of their successors shall then begin.

-a program of domestic reforms
- g.d
-For the first time in American history, the federal government took a central role in organizing business and agriculture

-the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.
-1933 – June 30, 1945
-helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal coalition

-series of thirty evening radio speeches given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt
- 1933 and 1944
-gave Americans hope and let them in tune with hat was happening politically