Great Depression
Thirties economic catastrophe
The Great Depression was the severe worldwide economic downturn of the 1930s, triggered by the 1929 U.S. stock market crash.
Characterized by mass unemployment, bank failures, and widespread poverty, it reshaped government's role in managing economies.
The term now serves as shorthand for catastrophic economic collapse: The worst recession since the Great Depression.
Rapid decline in share prices
- Black TuesdayHistoric stock market crash
- Wall StreetAmerican finance hub
- Dust BowlThirties prairie ecological collapse
- HoovervillesDepression-era homeless encampments
breadlines · bank failures · deflation · overproduction · speculation · Herbert Hoover · Okies · Grapes of Wrath
Being without paid work
- povertySevere lack of resources
- breadlinesQueues for free food
- soup kitchensFree meal centers for poor
- homelessnessLacking permanent residence
starvation · malnutrition · destitution · eviction · foreclosure · debt · austerity · scarcity
- FDRDepression-era presidential initials
- WPANetwork authentication standard
- TVAFederal power authority
- Social SecurityFederal old-age insurance program
public works · relief · recovery · reform · Glass-Steagall · FDIC · NRA · PWA
stock market crash
Rapid decline in share prices
- Black TuesdayHistoric stock market crash
- Wall StreetAmerican finance hub
- Dust BowlThirties prairie ecological collapse
Hoovervilles · breadlines · bank failures · deflation · overproduction · speculation · Herbert Hoover · Okies · Grapes of Wrath · soup kitchens
unemployment
Being without paid work
- povertySevere lack of resources
- breadlinesQueues for free food
- soup kitchensFree meal centers for poor
homelessness · starvation · malnutrition · destitution · eviction · foreclosure · debt · austerity · scarcity · dispossession
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Social Security · public works · relief · recovery · reform · Glass-Steagall · FDIC · NRA · PWA · AAA
- 20th Century HistoryWorld War I, WWI, Russian Revolution, Bolshevik Revolution, Treaty of Versailles
- US HistoryAmerican Revolution, US history, Civil War, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln
- 20th century cultureRoaring Twenties, Jazz Age, baby boom, counterculture, civil rights movement
- Australian HistoryCaptain Cook, Commonwealth, federation, explorers, Liberal Party
- economic policymonetary policy, tax policy, fiscal discipline, fiscal stimulus, fiscal restraint
- 1930sNew Deal, Hitler, Nazi Germany, appeasement, Shirley Temple
Great Depressioneconomic boom
Sustained period of growth
prosperity · Roaring Twenties · economic expansion · bull market · Golden Age
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