Thursday, March 17, 2011

The Great Depression... The Beginnings

This week we've started the Great Depression period 1929-1939. What started this period was a combination of several events that built up in the late 1920's Overproduction of Goods, Banking Failures and the Stock Market Crash of 1929 are most notable.

For the rest of this week we will be discussing how the President at the time, Herbert Hoover, tried desperately to fix all of these problems....