The Great Depression is the period of history that followed "Black Thursday", the stock market crash of Thursday, October 24, 1929 (the actual panic did not begin in earnest until Black Tuesday on October 29).

 The events in the United States triggered a world-wide depression, which led to deflation and a great increase in unemployment.

 On the global scale, the market crash in the US was a final straw in an already shaky world economic situation. Germany was suffering from hyperinflation of currency, and many of the Allied victors of World War I were having serious problems paying off huge war debts.

 In the late 1920s the American economy at first seemed immune to the mounting troubles, but with the start of the 1930s it crashed with startling rapidity.

Wikipedia The Free Encyclopedia.  [Online] Availabe http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Depression, November 5, 2003.

Project:  The Great Depression

This activity requires developing a PowerPoint project about the Great Depression in the 1930s.

The 5 elements of a news story --- who, what, when, where, and why should be addressed in your PowerPoint.

You will be limited to no more than 20 slides.

Your last slide will be titled Cited Works.  Here you will cite where you got all of your information, including pictures, sound, movies, etc.

Your presentation should have automatic transitions and timing.  Appropriate music should play during your presentation.

You are to follow this rubric. 

Kay’s The Great Depression Hotlist provides you with sites that will help you do your research.