The Great Depression was the worst economic disaster of the 20th century, starting with the 1929 stock market crash and ...

The 1929 stock market crash marked the beginning of the Great Depression. Factors including speculative lending and changing monetary policies contributed to the crash. Photos show the panic in ...

Franklin D. Roosevelt’s New Deal featured the creation Civilian Conservation Corps (the CCC) to give unemployed “single men ...

The worst market crash was seen in 1929 and led to the Great Depression. It was caused by speculative investments, excessive debt and banking system weakness. The Dot-Com Bubble collapse caused a ...

In the early days of the Great Depression, Rep. Willis Hawley ... There were thousands of bank failures and widespread business closures, while millions of Americans lost their homes.Smoot ...

who led the country nearly a century ago during the onset of the Great Depression. Within months of the stock market crash, Hoover signed into law the Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act, a 1930 measure that ...

Bettmann Archive via Getty Images The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the end of the "Roaring Twenties" and the beginning of the Great Depression. This was the second day of the big ...