The Great Depression was dated from 1929-1939. It was known to be the longest economic down fall in the history of western industrialized world. The Great depression was started after the stock market crashed in October 1929 ( “The Great depression”,n.d .). This event sent wall street into panic mode and swiped out millions of investors across the country. During the year 1933 the great depression had reached it’s peak and more than 13 million Americans were unemployed and half of our nations banks had failed. ( “The Great depression”,n.d .)
The stock market crashed in the year of 1929.This event was called the Great Crash. Before the great crash happened the …show more content…
Dorie grew up working on his father’s farm. He decided that he wanted to join the Navy in 1938 as a mess attendant to raise money for his family. Miller a Navy boxing champ had the job of carrying any injured men to safe quarters during the war. This included the captain of the ship. This man went down in history as a hero. After rescuing many American Soldiers, he went out on the ships deck and saw that they were still being attacked. Miller picked up 50-caliber antiaircraft machinegun and started to shoot the plans down until he ran out of ammo. Dorie Miller was known as a war hero. He impressed many Americans, received the Navy Cross, and was raised to the rank of first class. Some of his brothers in the Navy thought that he wasn’t rewarded properly and should have gotten the Metal of