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Walter Waters (1898-1959): Was a former Army Sergeant in the United States army who, in May 1932, led the 20,000-strong army of World War 1 veterans called the Bonus Army on their march to Washington D.C. The veterans were seeking immediate payment of service certificates, essentially additional pay, promised to them by Congress in the World War adjusted Compensation act of 1924 and scheduled for payment in 1945.

Warren Hardings (1865-1923):Was the 29th president of the United States. He was also the first incumbent United States Senator and the first newspaper publisher to be elected President. Warren spurned the League of Nations and signed a separate peace treaty with Germany and Austria, formally ending World War I.Harding presidency has been evaluated in terms of presidential record and accomplishments in addition to the administration scandals.

Mitchell Palmer (1872-1936):He was attorney general of the United States from 1919 to 1921. Palmer was elected as a Democrat to the 61st, 62nd, and 63rd Congresses and served from March 4, 1909, to March 3, 1915.Palmer served in the House of Represenatives in (1909-1915). He had previously been associated with the progressive wing of the party and had supported women's suffrage and trade unions rights. Palmer became convinced that Communist agents were planning to overthrow the American government.

Herbert Hoover (1874-1964): Hoover was originally a professional mining engineer and author.Mr. Hoover easily won the Republican nomination.Herbert was the 31st president of the United States (1929-1933).Herbert Hoover was a son of a Quaker,he was born in the west.In 1920 Hoover was appointed as Harding Secretary of Commerce.

Woodrow Wilson (1856-1924): Mr. Wilson was the 28th president of the United States,from 1913 to 1921.He served as President Of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913.Wilson persuaded a Democratic Congress to pass major progressive reforms.He had made the congressional election of 1918 virtually a vote of confidence, from his failure to appoint to the American peace delegation those who could speak for the Republican Party or for the Senate.

The Great Depression

The Great Depression began in the United States but quickly turned into a worldwide economic slump owing to the special and intimate relationships that had been forged between the United States and European economies after World War I. The United States had emerged from the war as the major creditor and finance of postwar Europe, whose national economies had been greatly weakened by the war itself, by war debts, and, in the case of Germany and other defeated nations, by the need to pay war reparations. So once the American economy slumped and the flow of American investment credits to Europe dried up, prosperity tended to collapse there as well. The Depression hit hardest those nations that were most deeply indebted to the United States, Germany and Great Britain. In Germany, unemployment rose sharply beginning in late 1929, and by early 1932 it had reached 6 million workers, or 25 percent of the work force. Britain was less severely affected, but its industrial and export sectors remained seriously depressed until World War II. Many other countries had been affected by the slump by 1931.The Great Depression may be said to have begun with a collapse of stock-market prices.