Herbert Hoover, Americas 31st president, took office in 1929, the same year the U.S. economy plummeted into the Great Depression. Subscribe for more .<br>Learn more about the 1930s, a particularly tumultuous decade in world history that got its start with a bang - or, more accurately, a crash. Subscribe for more .<br>Herbert Hoover and the Great Depression.<br>Check out these animations and illustrations of historical events and more!<br>Herbert Hoover, the President elected on the eve of the Great Depression, was often considered passive, unsympathetic, and ineffective. But in Herbert Hoover .
