The Cause of the Great Depression The great depression is almost mythical to many younger people growing up in America today. ... However, not many people known the true cause of the depression and how the depression was not limited to the United States. ... By 1929, Americans owed eight and a half billion dollars in broker's loans. ... The stock market began to show signs of a downfall on October twenty-first of 1929 when prices began to fall. ... The depression lasted until the end of the nineteen thirties. ...

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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. ... Without the help of the New Deal, America would not have had the support to make it out of its Depression. ...

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The decade of the 1930s can be defined in two parts: The Great Depression, and the restoration of the American economy. America was shaken by Stock Market Crash of 1929. ... Paradoxically, the entertainment industry took off at rapid rates during the Depression. ... These stars represented fantasy lives for the average American in the throes of the Depression. ... But the Depression brought on the invention of a new art form: the comic book and the superhero. ...

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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. There were many factors that played a part in the Depression, and the problems can be rooted mainly into the 1920's, the decade preceding the Depression. ... When the stocks started to fall slowly since September of 1929, people did not realize just how much trouble they were in. ... The economy was down; the Great Depression had begun. ...

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Women also made their way into the workforce during and after the Depression. ... The U.S. was immediately out of the depression when the war started. ... Leuchtenburg's book explains many different views of the Depression era. ... The New Deal did not restore the economy to the levels of 1929, but it was an extreme political and psychological accomplishment. ... 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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In 1919 Britains share of world trade was 25 percent , by 1929 this has fallen to 16 percent. ... Between 1919 and 1929 number of workers falls from 4.5 million 3.4 million ( 25 percent loss ). ... Countries increasingly indebted to America, many of the loans are short - term loans. ( 1929 - wall street crash ). ... The world depression at the early 1930`s The American depression worse than ours. 1929 - 1933 the GNP has fallen in America by 29 percent. ... Because of this, 1929 a labour government has been elected, but don`t have an overall majority and are depending upon the liberals....

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The concept of buying now and paying later was quickly adopted and by 1929, 60% of all cars and 80% of all radios were bought on installment credit. 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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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 promised to fight the depression to bring prosperity once again. ...

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Great Depression: The minds of others changed when the Great Depression occurred. ... The Wall Street stock market crash of 1929 precipitated the Great Depression; The worst economic downturn in the history of the nation. The depression had devastating effects on the country. ... The depression lasted over a decade, with hundreds of thousands of Americans losing their jobs, businesses failing, and financial institutions collapsing. At the time of the Great Depression, government intervention in the economy was higher than it had ever been and a special government agenc...

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In 1929 a chain reaction from downward up to the crashing of the stock market began the Great Depression. The Depression made life even worse for the Germans who had a difficult time rebuilding after the war. 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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