Description: The Great Depression was the longest and most depressed ever experienced by the industrialized Western world.

Significance: The Great Depression impacted factories which got shut down, farms and homes were lost to foreclosure, and people went hungry.

https://www.britannica.com/event/Great-Depression#:~:text=Great%20Depression%2C%20worldwide%20economic%20downturn,macroeconomic%20policy%2C%20and%20economic%20theory.

Description: The United States stock market crashed in an event known as Black Tuesday. Which lasted until the beginning of World War II.

Significance: Black Tuesday impacted the world triggering a chain of catastrophic events in the US and Europe, which included mass bankruptcies and umemployment, and dramatic declines in production and money supply.

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/1929-stock-market-crash

Description: The Dust Bowl was a tragic thing to happen to people during the 1930s. There were major dust storms and droughts that took place.

Significance: This impacted the United States by making crops fail to grow, livestock died of starvation and thirst and thousands of farm families lost their farms and faced servere poverty.

https://drought.unl.edu/dustbowl/

Description: Herbert Hoover was America's 31st president. After the war happened Herbert Hoover led the American Relief Administration which provided food to the starving millions in Central and Eastern Europe but mostly in Russia.

Significance: Herbert Hoover implemented stronger protection for labor. Also he increased the federal subsidies for agriculture.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/herbert-hoover/

Description: Franklin Delano Roosevelt was the 32nd president of the United States and he was the only president to serve more than two terms in the years 1933 to 1945. Roosevelt was best known for the engineering of the New Deal.

Significance: His contributions were significant because he expanded the powers of the federal government through a series of programs.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/about-the-white-house/presidents/franklin-d-roosevelt/

Description: Franklin Roosevelt used fireside chats throughout his presidency to address the fears and concerns of the American people.

Signficance: The fireside chats were a influential series of radio broadcasts in which Franklin Roosevelt utilized the media to present his programs and ideas directly to the public.

https://www.britannica.com/event/fireside-chats

Description: The New Deal included new constraints and safeguards on the banking industry for americans.

Significance: The New Deal impacted the U.S by creating programs that helped improve the lives of people that were suffering from the great depression.

https://www.archives.gov/seattle/exhibit/picturing-the-century/great-depression.html#:~:text=President%20Franklin%20D.,works%20program%20for%20the%20unemployed.

Description: The SSA act was started to create social insurance to pay retired workers ages 65 or older to continue getting income.

Significance: This Act impacted the U.S by providing for the unemployment insurance and old age insurance.

https://www.ssa.gov/history/35act.html

Description: The National Cancer institute is established it was signed into law by President Roosevelt. The institute conduted support and research for the cancer patients.

Significance: The national Cancer insitute expanded the Nat Clinical Trials to focus on scientific efforts on the understanding, prevention, detection, and treatment of cancer. This helped the U.S learned new and more things about cancer

https://www.nih.gov/about-nih/what-we-do/nih-almanac/national-cancer-institute-nci#:~:text=August%205%2C%201937%E2%80%94The%20National,Roosevelt.

Description: The WPA was a program created by The New Deal and helped millions of unemployed young men who were not formally educated work in the public works projects.

Significance: This impacted the U.S by building bridges, roads and public buildings. Also this program helped feed hot meals to over 1 million kids who were undernourished.

https://www.georgiahistory.com/collection-highlights-wpa-nutritional-lunch-program/

Description: Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) allowed single men ages 18 to 25 enlist in work programs.

Significance: This act impacted the U.S by employing over 3 million men over the first 9 years it started.

https://www.history.com/topics/great-depression/civilian-conservation-corps

Description: The FDA mandated the drug manufacturers to have evidence of the new drug's safety and effectiveness before marketing and selling it.

Significance: The FDA brought the medical devices under control and the drugs had to be labeled for the directions to be safely used.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK585046/#:~:text=The%20FDCA%20authorizes%20the%20FDA,%2C%20medical%20devices%2C%20and%20cosmetics.

Description: The National Disease Control Act established preventive healthcare for venereal diseases.

Significance: This act impacted the U.S by creating grants for the states to set up clinics and support testing and the other treatments.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/article-abstract/312981