Mr. D. Great Depression

• underproduction

• spread of Communism

• overproduction

• speculation in stock market

• agricultural under production

• agricultural over production

• Stock Market Crash

• philanthropy of big business

• Herbert Hoover

• Teddy Roosevelt

• Woodrow Wilson

• William Taft

• no government regulation of business

• laissez-faire

• strict laws on big business

• strict immigration laws

• paying loan in full

• buying on margin

• lowering of interest rates

• more regulation on big business

• Britain and France debt after WWI

• Germany take over of Sweden

• Zimmerman Telegram

• Russian Revolution

• 1910's

• 1920's

• 1930's

• 1940's

• banks opening in the American Southwest

• banks investing customers' money in risky investments

• banks lack of effective advertising

• banks opening doors only to the rich

• October 29, 1939

• October 22 1928

• October 29, 1929

• October 29, 1949

• low unemployment

• high unemployment

• economic prosperity

• economic boom