The Great Depression was a dark time in U.S. history, a worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted a decade – the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by a country ...

They served the country and were promised a decent salary — a bonus to their low military wages. But they didn’t get it, and this was during the Great Depression. The soldiers, known as the “Bonus ...

The Great Depression was a severe economic depression that began in the United States following the stock market crash in October of 1929 ... The Bonus Army, Hoovervilles, and the Great Depression ...

The U.S. Cavalry disperses Bonus March veterans from the scene of an earlier battle between police and the veterans in Washington, D.C., July 28, 1932.

Thousands of volunteers joined the military during World War I. But when the war ended and the Great Depression began, the volunteers wanted a bonus to be paid in 1932, not in 1945 as planned.

And then the economic calamity of the Great Depression hit. A group of veterans led by Walter Waters left Portland, Ore. in 1932, bound for Washington to protest for early payment of their bonus.