GREAT DEPRESSION
1929 - 1939
 

The Great Depression was a severe recession and took place from 1929 - 1939.

First, the economy started to collapse in the United States, but soon it affected the entire world.

Unemployment was the word of the day.

Herbert Hoover, who was US president from 1929 - 1933, and Franklin Delano Roosevelt, who was US president from 1933 - 1945, had their hands full.

The opening chapter of the Great Depression is generally referred to as the stock market crash of 1929, or the Great Crash.

Especially bad was October 24, 1929, also called Black Thursday.

And October 28, 1929, also called Black Monday.

And October 29, 1929, also called Black Tuesday.

Black Friday, however, usually refers to September 24, 1869, the day when Jay Gould and James Fisk tried to monkey with the gold market and it severely backfired.