The Great Depression

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This paper first describes some of the historical events leading up to the Great Depression that followed WWI. The paper then takes a look at President Hoover's response to the Great Depression, its impact on the world, and some of the theories put forth that try to explain the causes of the Depression.

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"The Great Depression began when the stock market crashed in October, 1929, creating "such a shock to most Americans that some early attempts to explain their causes blamed sunspot activity or medieval prophecy. A few held it to be a divine retribution on a people who had indulged themselves in a decade of hedonism after World War I and were due for a sobering experience. Others recognized that the 1920s that brought hints of an agricultural recession, amid uninhibited business speculation (Unknown).""

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