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The Great Depression: Crash Course US History #33
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- CrashCourse
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- Sep 21, 2026
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- 1121
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Summary
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-depressionThe 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-conditionsLearn more about the Great Depression in episode #28 of Crash Course Black American History here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f14kiGoexVgChapters:Introduction: The Great Depression 00:00Causes of the Great Depression 0:48The Stock Market Crash 2:31The Failures of America's Banking System 3:35The Hoover Administration's Responses to the Great Depression 5:10WWI's Global Economic Impact 5:40Hoover and The Gold Standard 6:57What Hoover did (and didn't) do about the Great Depression 8:13The Reconstruction Finance Corporation 10:04Impact of the Great Depression 10:30Mystery Document 11:27Accounts of the Great Depression 12:35Credits 13:55Crash Course is on Patreon! You can support us directly by signing up at http://www.patreon.com/crashcourseWant to find Crash Course elsewhere on the internet?Facebook - http://www.facebook.com/YouTubeCrashCourseTwitter - http://www.twitter.co…