The great depression
- The Great Depression occurred between 1932 and 1933.
- Herbert Hoover (1874-1964), a Republican, was president when the Great Depression began.
- Between 1930 and 1935, nearly 750,000 farms were lost through bankruptcy.
- Economic conditions that led to the Great Depression began in the early 1920s, but most people think of the stock market crash of 1929 as the start of the Great Depression.