The Great Depression in the United States began in 1929 with the stock market crash and continued throughout the rest of the 1930s until World War II began in 1939. It was characterized by years of high unemployment and a lack of consumer spending. As well, the events of the Dust Bowl worsened life for many working-class people and farmers. Click below to learn more about specific topics related to the Great Depression.
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|Boom and Bust Cycle
|Causes of the Great Depression |Democratic Socialism |Dust Bowl |Franklin D. Roosevelt |Friedrich Hayek |Herbert Hoover |
|Impacts of the Great Depression
|John Maynard Keynes |Keynesian Economics |New Deal |Protectionism |Roosevelt's Fireside Chats |Roosevelt's First Inaugural Speech |