When one thinks of The Great Depression, they would think of millions of people depressed. In fact, according to the MacMillan Dictionary, The Great Depression was a period marked by a severe reduction in business activity, rise in unemployment and falling wages and prices that lasted from 1929 to 1939. The K.H.S. history book by McDougal Littell agrees with this definition of the Great Depression by stating that there were countless causes to this great event that grasped the entire world. ... But probably the most crucial cause of the Great Depression was the substantial unequal distri...

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The Great Depression was a devastating time for many people. ... The time frame was from about 1929 until approximately 1939. ... Throughout this paper I will go over the causes and the consequences of the Great Depression. ... In order to get an understanding of the great Depression we first need to know what the word depression means. ... Many men lost their jobs due to the events of the great depression. ...

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The great depression of the US not only affected people domestically, but internationally as well. ... The most influential event in world history after the 1900's is the great depression because of the decline in international commerce and stock markets around the world, the rise of Hitler, and Franklin D. ... In 1929 they expanded to 1,825. ... Average stock prices tripled from 1925 to 1929. ... The crash of the Stock Market led to the Great 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. ... By 1939 public attention focused increasingly on foreign policy and national defense. ... Paradoxically, the entertainment industry took off at rapid rates during the Depression. ... Later, in 1939, Bob Kane created Batman. ...

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The Great Depression was caused by a number of things such as the stock market crash of 1929, bank failures and drought conditions. Roosevelt tried to combat the Great Depression through the New Deal. ... The Works Progress Administration (WPA), renamed in 1939 as the Work Projects Administration, employed over eight million Americans, mostly unskilled men, from 1935 to 1943. ... Prior to the depression the vast majority of African Americans were republicans but during the depression the vote went from republican to democrat. ... The new deal did not end the Great Depression what ultimately en...

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