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History for Grownups
copyright 2007,
David White

The Great Depression

The Great Depression was a period of great discontent and hardship in the U.S.

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America's Great Depression
Facts, figures, photos, and more

The Great Depression
Good details from Wikipedia

Timeline of the Great Depression
Excellent summation from PBS

The Stock Market Crash of 1929
Pivotal event in the chain reaction of events that led to the Great Depression

The Bonus Army
Veterans who marched on Washington to demand money owed to them

Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Government agency that couldn't deal with the problems of the Great Depression

The Dust Bowl
Drought-driven sorrows in the Midwest and West

The Great Depression and the New Deal
How one led to the other

The New Deal
Franklin D. Roosevelt's plan to lift America out of the Depression

America from the Great Depression to World War II
Amazing collection of photographs from the Library of Congress

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