How did the great depression end?
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the irony was that war was good for the world economically as it spured their economies.  as world war 2 started, they needed workers for the factories to produce bombs and guns.  soon, the unemployment rate went down, and the US especially was starting to profit through the selling of weaponry to other countries before Lend Lease Act.  as more people are working, they get paid, and the economy goes for the better.  another one in a very small role was the New Deal by Franklin Delano Roosevelt.  while it didn't stop the great depression, it put the US in the fast track by creating more jobs and putting new laws and restrictions in the economy.
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The years preceeding the Dust Bowl were very good.  The farmers were booming and they started buying more land to plant more crops.  They started taking out loans to buy the land and machines.  Then there was a drought.  They had all this land that they cleared for crops and and the crops died.  So when the plants died from lack of water and the wind came it blew all that loose dirt everywhere.  So there was little food and everything was dirty.  If they had no crops to sell they didn't have money.  Loans on the property and machinery started to foreclose.  This was one factor of the Great Depression.  Now if you drive through a state like Oklahoma you will see a single row of trees planted.  These are called windbreaks.  It is supposed to prevent loose dirt being blown around again.
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World War I/Great Depression
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When Roosevelt was inaugurated in March 1933, the U.S. was at the nadir of the worst depression in its history. A fourth of the workforce was unemployed. Industrial production had fallen by more than half since 1929. In a country with limited government social services outside the cities, two million were homeless. The banking system was on the point of collapse. There was little violence, but most observers considered it remarkable that such an obvious breakdown of the capitalist system had not led to a rapid growth of fascism (as happened in Nazi Germany). Instead of adopting revolutionary solutions, the American people had turned to the Democrats and to a leader who had grown up in privilege.\n\n\nThe First New Deal, 1933-1934\nRoosevelt indeed had few systematic economic beliefs; he relied heavily on a Brain Trust of academic advisors from leading universities. He saw the Depression as partly a matter of confidence—people had stopped spending, investing, and employing labor because they were afraid to do so. As he put it in his inaugural address: "the only thing we have to fear is fear itself." He therefore set out to restore confidence through a series of dramatic gestures.\n\n\nBanking crisis\nA high priority in the first "Hundred Days" was stabilizing the financial system. By inauguration day, state governors in every state had ordered banks closed or placed restrictions on deposits (as bank closings increased, this created more panic as depositors in other states rushed to withdraw funds before a state-imposed holiday was declared in their own states).[3] Roosevelt issued Proclamation 2038 on March 6 ordering "all banking transactions" be suspended through March 9, "in order to prevent the export, hoarding, or earmarking of gold... or currency." On March 9, Roosevelt told Congress in person, "Our first task is to open all sound banks." To accomplish this he asked for and received emergency legislation giving him control over all banks. The same day he received authority to "open such banks as have already been ascertained to be in sound condition, and other such banks as may be found to require reorganization to put them on a sound basis." Thus, all the nation's 19,000 banks had to be inspected before they could reopen. In all, 4,004 banks never reopened; most were small, with an average of $900,000 in deposits. They were merged into stronger banks and eventually the depositors got about 85% of their deposits back. (Historical Statistics X741-7555) At first, Roosevelt opposed bank insurance, but in June he reluctantly signed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) law to insure bank deposits. Angered at efforts to manipulate the dollar-gold ratio by European speculators, on April 5th 1933, Roosevelt issued Executive Order 6102 that required all persons holding more than $100 in gold coin exchange it for paper money at face value. After January 1934, he then devalued the international value of the dollar by 40% in terms of gold, hoping to stimulate exports. (Freidel 1990 p 101-2)\n\n\nRelief\nDuring the first hundred days of his administration, Roosevelt used his enormous prestige and the sense of impending disaster to force a series of bills through Congress, establishing and funding various new government agencies. These included the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), which granted funds to the states for unemployment relief, and the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) to hire 250,000 young men to work on rural local projects, as well as the first Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA). The AAA tried to force higher prices for commodities by paying farmers to take land out of crops and cutting herds. In 1936, the U.S. Supreme Court found the AAA to be unconstitutional.\n\nRoosevelt's series of radio speeches, known as Fireside Chats, presented his proposals to the American public. The informal chats not only reassured liste
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WW1 ended with the Treaty of Versailles.  The terms of the Treaty imposed harsh conditions on Germany.  Germany could not have a standing army, land was taken from Germany and the German nation was forced to pay huge sums in reparations.  The enconomy was experience hyperinflation.  This is where the money loses its value, almost to the point of being worthless.  People would ask to be paid at noon so they could run out and spend it---because by the end of the day their pay would only be worth half as much.  There are pictures of men pushing wheelbarrows FULL of German money down the street.\n\nHitler was a WW1 hero.  He saw the problems that Germany was facing under the unjust terms of the Versailles treaty.  He saw the wreck the economy was in.  There were no jobs for German citizens in the private sector, so Hitler created huge government projects that employed millions of Germans.  As the people went back to work, their apathy dissipated.  Hitler gained even more power, and in time was able to repudiate the Versailles Treaty and raise an army.\n\nthis is just the tip of the iceberg.  Read and study more about pre-WWII Germany.
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(October 29, 1929), also known as Black Tuesday, the day on which thousands of investors tried to sell their stocks, ending the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties. The crash was caused by the overspeculation of the 1920s; investors, taking risks in hopes of profits, bought their stock on margin with money they did not have. On that day, over 16 million shares of stock were traded. With an overabundance of sellers and few buyers, the prices of stocks dropped far below the prices paid for them, and investors lost billions of dollars in paper profits within a matter of hours. Banks and businesses had also invested in the stock market, and with the falling prices, the values of their investments plunged, causing them to fold. Although the crash did not "cause" the Great Depression, it was the opening event of the era.
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1932 maybe, i believe it was during the great depression. I think FDR created it. Maybe?
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They did borrow from the United States to pay France and and England.  France and England then paid the United States from this money.  When the Depression hit, there was no money to lend and no money to pay.
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it was the largest federal government expansion in american history. it gave more power to the executive branch of government. The states were not able to successfully get out of the depression, so they gave up some of their state rights in order for the federal government to help them. This gave the federal government much more power in which to start new programs and agencies. (ie: social security) I'd say it was successful at the time, but many of the programs now are not effective or are outdated.
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Socially: Everyone ignored the ban on alcohol and partied a lot.  Economically: The stock market crashed and the economy plunged into a depression.  Politically: People blamed Hoover for the lack of jobs and money and elected FDR.
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I know that prohibition was a big one. The recovery from WWI had alot to do with it also, and the depression. We had 65% unemployment in some areas of the Country. America was crippled from Taft's legislation, and the control of the banks. The Banks couldn't cover the money, that was put into their banks, it wasn't there, "HUH". I would start there.
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By limiting production, Roosevelt succeeded in creating demand for farm goods, instead of overproduction.  This brought the prices up, and the amount of goods down, giving farmers steady income.\n\nThe New Deal program initiated was the Agricultural Adjustment Administration (AAA).  It aided farmers and restricted overproduction.  At first, most farmers were skeptical of Roosevelt's new plan, and he had to pay them to put it into effect.  This problem also arose during the Dust Bowl era, when Roosevelt's administration persuaded farmers to not plow as often, and use different techniques.  But its effects are clear today.
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It's hard to say how many people were affected by the Great Depression, because it was a global phenomenon and in different parts of the world people were affected in different degrees.\n\nmoreover, you ask "How many of them survived?" However, in most cases it was not a case of life and death, but rather that people became poor and suffered in the economical sense.\n\nRead more in this good Wikipedia article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_depression
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People were poor because of the Great Depression.
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The great depression was different.......the reason people lost their homes was because banks called entire loans due......for example..you had a mortgage for $2,000 and the bank would send you a letter saying you had 30 days to pay your entire mortgage balance...thank you\n\nBanks cant do that today....we have laws that prevent them from calling mortgages due like that.
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He proposed the "New Deal" that brought the country out of the great depression\n\nLed the country through World War two\n\nworked towards unemployment, restoration of prosperity, significant new taxes and controls\n\nput over 120,000 japanese americans into concentration camps\n\nplayed a critical role in shaping the post-war world, particularly through the Yalta Conference and the creation of the United Nations.\n\nThose are key points ... research them in detail for your essay
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Another economic depression is possible.  Currently the U.S. is in several billion dollars of debt.  Most of this money was borrowed from Asian countries, (particularly China).  If our current trade agreement with China goes south, we will find ourselves with no money and massive debt.  Taxes will be raised and buisnesses will close down.  No imports from China means prices on all goods skyrocket.  Remember though, these events are highly unlikely.