The Cause of the Great Depression The great depression is almost mythical to many younger people growing up in America today. ... The great depression of occurred because of three main reasons and left the country trying to recover for the next decade. ... Because Americans didn't save their money they ran into the second cause for the great depression: debt. ... The third reason for the great depression is the most widely known. ... By 1929, Americans owed eight and a half billion dollars in broker's loans. ...

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"The 1929 Wall Street Market crash had a significant political, social and economic implications for all countries in the western world." ... Argue your case with particular reference Great Britain, Germany, Italy, Japan, Russia and USA. ... However, the boom could not last forever and in 1929 the Federal Reserve Board said that it was unwise for banks to lend money for speculation. It was on Thursday October 24 1929, "Black Thursday", that the crash began with 12.9 million shares being sold by the end of the day. ... The effects of unemployment were widespread throughout the world, a...

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The Great Depression was a time of crisis and hardship in the lives of all Americans. ... The New Deal made improvements that began to pull the nation out of its long Depression. The causes of the Great Depression related to the way Americans were living in the 1920's. ... The stock market crash in 1929, created the downward spiral of the Great Depression. ... As the Great Depression progressed, President Roosevelt worked hard to control the effects and put a stop to the crisis. ...

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Leutchenburg FDR: A President to Remember Out of a Great War, into a Great Depression, and onto a great recovery. ... America, as I see it, is a country of greatness. ... The New Deal did not restore the economy to the levels of 1929, but it was an extreme political and psychological accomplishment. Roosevelt played a huge role in helping to restore the economy during the Great Depression, but was mainly backed up by WWII. In the time span of ten years from 1929, the country experienced an era of hardship that saw the world through a new window. ...

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However, the Roaring Twenties marked the end of economic and social improvement for a long time, since the Wall Street Stock Market Crash of 1929 and the Great Depression would hit in the next decade. ... By 1929, the United States had produced over 90% of the 32 million automobiles in the world. ... The economy suddenly plummeted in 1929 and started the Great Depression. ...

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The Great Depression was indeed the worst ever economic slump in the history of the United States. Nearly all aspects of the industrialized world were affected starting in 1929. ... Another of the rather perilous causes of the definitive Great Depression was excessive speculation in the stock market. ... The economy was down; the Great Depression had begun. ... The Great Depression was the worst economic slump America had ever seen, and hopefully, will ever see. ...

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It is often seen as a period of great advance as the nation became urban and commercial (Calvin Coolidge declared that America's business was business). ... Overall, the decade is often seen as a period of great contradiction: of rising optimism and deadening cynicism, of increasing and decreasing faith, of great hope and great despair. ... In the fall of 1929, the New York Stock Exchange was more active than it had ever been. ... By October 24, 1929, Black Thursday, the stock market crashed and panic broke out. ... The nation stayed in this depression through the end of the twenties and ...

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This was also the era of great sports champions such as Babe Ruth the baseball player and Bobby Jones "the greatest amateur golfer of all time." ... By 1929, 80% of Americans had no savings at all. Between 1925 and 1929 the total amount of outstanding installment credit increased from $1.38 billion to over $3 billion. ... The strength of America's economy came to an end in October 1929 when the Stock Market crashed. ... The depression took a while to get going but by the winter of 1932 it was at its worse. ...

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After a brief post-war depression, in 1922 saw the beginning of a great boom that peaked in 1927 and lasted until 1929. ... Equally important, the national per capita income increased by 30% to $681 in 1929, American workers became the highest paid in history. ... Production jumped from fewer than 2 million units a year to over 5 million by 1929. ... City streets became the scene of violent shoot-outs between rival bootleggers; by 1929, Chicago had witnessed over five hundred gang lands. ... The # of African Americans graduating from college rose from 391 in 1920 to 1,903 by 1929. ...

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In 1929 Herbert Hoover became President and promised that America's prosperity would increase. ... The 'Boom' was now over and depression had come. ... The majority of Americans actually blamed Hoover for the Depression, thus when Roosevelt came on the scene he stood in great contrast to Hoover. Roosevelt was enthusiastic and optimistic a man of great confidence. ... Roosevelt promised to fight the depression to bring prosperity once again. ...

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The common uncertainties we were left with after the Great War gave rise to many new ways of thought and practice that inevitably shaped the world we live in today. ... A great example of this revolution were the studies of Ludwig Wittgenstein. He noted that philosophy can only speak about things that actually "are" and offered the world the great advice, "About those things of which we know not, we should remain silent... America's "age of anxiety" was more collectively felt after the Great Depression of 1929, which concluded a decade of partying in avoidance of the inability to deal w...

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After World War I, the United States went back to their old principle, "We shun political commitments which might entangle us in foreign wars,"" as FDR said in 1936 during the Great Depression . ... In 1929 a chain reaction from downward up to the crashing of the stock market began the Great Depression. ... But America was hit the worst by the Depression. ... Nazism brought Germany out of the Depression and prosperity back to the country. ... This caused other countries disturbance, but they were all busy with their own affairs "getting through the Great Depression. ...

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