when did the great depression end in the united states
Great Depression in the United States By the end of 1941, before American entry into the war, defense spending and military mobilization had started one of the greatest booms in American history thus ending the last traces of unemployment.[69]
Herbert Hoover Herbert Clark Hoover (August 10, 1874 â€“ October 20, 1964) was an American engineer, businessman and politician who served as the 31st President of the United States from 1929 to 1933 during the Great Depression. A Republican, as Secretary of Commerce in the 1920s he introduced Progressive Era themes of efficiency in the business community and provided government support for standardization, efficiency and international trade. As president from 1929 to 1933, his ambitious programs were overwhelmed by the Great Depression, which seemed to get worse every year because of the increasingly large-scale interventions he made in the economy. Hoover was defeated in a landslide in 1932 by Democratic Franklin D. Roosevelt and spent the rest of his life as a conservative denouncing big government, liberalism and federal intervention in economic affairs as Democrats repeatedly used his Depression record to attack conservatism and justify more regulation of the economy.