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  1. Sep 16, 2010 · The 1930s were the decade of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl and other problems, but also the Franklin D. Roosevelt presidency and Hollywood’s Golden Age.

  2. The 1930s were dominated by the Great Depression, the biggest economic crisis the nation had ever known. Unlike economic crises of the past, the Great Depression was long lasting and touched almost every area of American life. Understandably, the government of the United States was driven between 1930 and 1939 by the need to end the crisis and ...

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  4. Apr 26, 2024 · Great Depression, worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and lasted until about 1939. It was the longest and most severe depression ever experienced by the industrialized Western world, sparking fundamental changes in economic institutions, macroeconomic policy, and economic theory.

  5. Political movements and social change. Aside from the Civil War, the Great Depression was the gravest crisis in American history. Just as in the Civil War, the United States appeared—at least at the start of the 1930s—to be falling apart.

  6. In the 1930 elections the Democratic Party won control of the House of Representatives and, in combination with liberal Republicans, the Senate as well. Soon afterward a slight rise in production and employment made it seem that the worst of the depression was over.

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  7. Sep 12, 2018 · As fascism spread globally in the 1930s, the U.S. responded with a series of radio programs informing the public about American democracy. Jill Lepore, author of These Truths, talks to Steve...

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