Person1874 – 1964
Herbert Hoover
31st US president (1929–1933), whose first year in office brought the stock market crash and the Great Depression
Where they went
2 related events
An economic crisis that began with the 1929 crash on Wall Street spread around the world, collapsing production and trade and throwing millions out of work. How nations met the crisis set democracies and totalitarian states on different paths.
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Share prices on the New York Stock Exchange began to plunge on 24 October 1929 and collapsed on “Black Tuesday”, the 29th — the starting point of the Great Depression.
People who appear alongside
- Franklin D. Roosevelt1882 – 1945
32nd US president (1933–1945) who led the New Deal and took the US to war after Pearl Harbor; he attended the Cairo and Yalta conferences
Themes this person appears in
- The Great Depression and Totalitarianism1919 – 1939
From the Washington Conference to the invasion of Poland — two decades in which the age of international cooperation collapsed in the Depression, fascism, Nazism and Stalinism rose, and the world slid into war again