The Great Depression: Crash Course US History #33

2013-10-10

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In which John Green teaches you about the Great Depression. 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.

Hey teachers and students - Check out CommonLit's free collection of reading passages and curriculum resources to learn more about the events of this episode. The Roaring Twenties ended with The Great Depression, a period of soul-searching for the United States dealing with a failing middle class: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/the-great-depression

The issues of the Great Depression were made more difficult by the agricultural crisis known as the Dust Bowl: https://www.commonlit.org/texts/excerpt-from-on-drought-conditions

Learn more about the Great Depression in episode #28 of Crash Course Black American History here: /youtube/video/f14kiGoexVg

Chapters:

Introduction: The Great Depression 00:00

Causes of the Great Depression 0:48

The Stock Market Crash 2:31

The Failures of America's Banking System 3:35

The Hoover Administration's Responses to the Great Depression 5:10

WWI's Global Economic Impact 5:40

Hoover and The Gold Standard 6:57

What Hoover did (and didn't) do about the Great Depression 8:13

The Reconstruction Finance Corporation 10:04

Impact of the Great Depression 10:30