The Great Depression: Crash Course US History #33

You can directly support Crash Course at https://www.patreon.com/crashcourse Subscribe for as little as $0 to keep up with everything we're doing. Free is nice, but if you can afford to pay a little every month, it really helps us to continue producing this content. 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

Comments

1. What is absolutely strange is the Depression actually "prepared" young people to be ready for WWII.  They were tough, expected nothing and they brought defeat to Germany and Japan.  Very strange how things work.
2. My tests are way harder this is like part of it. I hate history because of the tests my teacher give me.
3. i barely see channels like this......good job making it unique!
4. Blaming the gold standard...wow. Ended the video/credibility right there.
5. Fake pen
6. ...so... FUCKING>>>COOL!!!!!
7. I would be slaying in the 1920's because I'm also greatly depressed as well
8. There were over 1 million who died of starvation from 1935 until 1942. The homeless died quickly.
9. its like snortin 2 lines of coke and tryna explain something to anybody lol
10. I don't have a test tomorrow
11. This is so metal
12. When your depression is even worse than this
13. I love these vids lol <3
14. This totally helped with my history projects
15. hi
16. Pathetic presentation...
17. This is not totally true. First of all Deflation is not bad in anyway. Think about it more and you will get it. Second thing is that free market can heal it self. Government stymulation of economy is a mith.
18. Hover actually did too much, if he just sat on his hand the depression would have been over in a few years. As the market and banks would have been able to crash completely freeing up resources to rebuild a better stronger foundation from the cheap inventory left behind. Thats how boom bust always works, it only falls apart when you do what Hover and FDR did which turned the bust into a long drawn out decade long struggle that only ended with world war 2 and the subsequent reopening of trade.
    
    Hover did too much and your excuse of him doing too little too late is really just proof of that fact, Even FDR completely failed with his big government solution. Only World War 2 and the subsequent free trade era pulled us out.
19. This is completely wrong the stock market crash was the main reason of the Great Depression due to the massive loss of money
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