Great Depression
1929–1939 · Event
Worst economic downturn of the industrial era; mass unemployment for a decade.
On these timelines: Master, Economic History, USA
Around 1929
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Discovery of penicillin (1928)
- Treaty of Versailles (1919)
- Wall Street Crash (1929)
- German invasion of Poland (1939)
- Presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933)
- Weimar Republic (1919)