... States went through a breakdown, sparked by the stock market crash in 1929, in their economic prosperity that they had experienced in the early 1920's as the United States fell into the worst depression in it's history. Franklin Delano Roosevelt, while campaigning for the presidency in San Francisco, gave a speech before the Commonwealth Club where he strongly stated, "The government should assume the function of economic regulation only as a last resort ... recede into a deeper and deeper depression. When World War II hit the United States in 1939, the depression began to fade away bec...

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... ever been depressed? When one thinks of The Great Depression, they would think of millions of people depressed. In fact, according to the MacMillan Dictionary, The Great Depression was a period marked by a severe reduction in business activity, rise in unemployment and falling wages and prices that lasted from 1929 to 1939. The K.H.S. history book by McDougal Littell agrees with this definition of the Great Depression by stating that there were countless causes to ... this great event that grasped the entire world. WWI took its toll on the American citizens with war debts and manual lab...

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