The 1930s were marked by the Great Depression, a time of severe economic downturn that began with the stock market crash of 1929. Millions of Americans were thrown into poverty as unemployment ...

which was completed in 1927 — two years before the stock market crash that brought on the Great Depression. He claimed nobody knew anything of “opulence” or “poverty” until then ...

Men eating bread and soup at a breadline during The Great Depression in the USA in 1929. Breadlines were places for people in extreme poverty, who did not have the money to buy food for themselves ...

Seven months later the nation was rocked by the onset of the Great Depression. As the Depression proved to be more than a temporary economic downturn, Hoover resisted pressure to take a more ...