The Great Depression

Bringing the best history on the web. — From Crash Course, their US History Series, #33. The Great Depression, published on October 10, 2013.

So, everybody knows that the Great Depression started with the stock market crash in 1929, right? Not exactly. The Depression happened after the stock market crash, but wasn’t caused by the crash. John will teach you about how the depression started, what Herbert Hoover tried to do to fix it, and why those efforts failed.

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