Americans built this huge irrigation project offering jobs to hundreds of Americans who had become unemployed by the economic situation.
Americans built this huge irrigation project offering jobs to hundreds of Americans who had become unemployed by the economic situation. The project began in 1931 and was completed in 1936 making it the most colossal prewar hydroelectric dam in the world.
It was named by the Interior Minister and later US President Herbert Hoover.
This is a key project of the US development of the 20th century, which is guarded 24 hours a day.
The slightest sabotage to the Hoover Dam will leave America without light and water.
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