1932 Low point of the Great Depression . One-third of U.S. workers unemployed. Civilian Conservation Corps. In the 1930s, the CCC in Wisconsin builds more than 500 bridges, works on soil conservation projects, reforestation, lays 4,000 miles of fire lanes, truck trails, roads and telephone lines, stocks streams with half a billion fish, etc. At it s peak, the summer of 1938, there were 45 Conservation Camps across the state of Wisconsin.
Dairy farmers conduct milk strike to protest low prices .
1933 Prohibition ends. Wisconsin Progressive Party organized . Most of Wisconsin has electricity by the 1930s. 332,000 Wisconsin residents, including 9,000 women, serve in U.S. military. In the 1940's Hispanic migrant workers arrive in the state to assist with the fruit and vegetable harvest in response to WWII labor shortages.