GReat Depression (1929 - 1945)

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At the end of the 1920s, the United States boasted the largest economy in the world. With the destruction wrought by World War I, Europeans struggled while Americans flourished. Upon succeeding to the Presidency, Herbert Hoover predicted that the United States would soon see the day when poverty was eliminated. Then, in a moment of apparent triumph, everything fell apart. The stock market crash of 1929 touched off a chain of events that plunged the United States into its longest, deepest economic crisis of its history.

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• Docs Teach: Weighing Evidence
  
• Docs Teach: Mapping the Great Depression
• Docs Teach: New Deal Assignment 

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