The crash was the worst in the countries and blanketed its negative effects over the positive happenings of the previous decade. ... The United Sates faced the Great Depression. The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which spread to virtually the entire industrialized world. ... The weakness of the international economy certainly contributed to the Great Depression. ... As countries began to meet the Great Depression, powerful leaders arose from the cloud caused by it. ...

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Wolfgang Schivelbusch's Three New Deals and John Garraty's New Deal, National Socialism, and The Great Depression discusses America under president Franklin D. ... He accomplished this by focusing on the policies and their effects not on the motives of the policy makers. ... He contends that until the Great Society is converted into a Great Community the public will remain a formless and an incoherent body of citizens. ... Garraty compares the response to the Depression between the industrial nations most profoundly affected by the crisis: the United States and Germany from 1933 t...

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In 1928 universal suffrage for women was obtained, paradoxically during a time when growing economic depression and slump appeared to lend increasing weight to Marxist analyses of the inevitable failure of capitalist economic systems. ... The First and Second World Wars (1914–18 and 1939–45 respectively) mark, in time and in their effects, momentous changes on a global scale: this kind of worldwide effect is a phenomenon of the century. ... As such, it relates closely to Impressionism in the visual arts, and shares many structural features with the new medium of the cinema, which ...

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