I'm going to move on from the Great Depression next week ... in commodity prices and there's no doubt that this level of poverty was a breeding ground for all sorts of discontent.

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Many people today are unfamiliar with the term “Great Depres­sion” and the profound signifi­cance it holds in global history. The Great Depression, which began in 1929 and lasted through the 1930s, ...

The social consequences of the Great Depression devastated everyday people who faced widespread panic amidst increased homelessness, poverty, and a loss of savings due to bank failures.

Some left to escape poverty or troubled families, others because it seemed a great adventure. At the height of the Great Depression, more than 250,000 teenagers were living on the road in America.

Men eating bread and soup at a breadline during The Great Depression in the USA in 1929. Breadlines were places for people in extreme poverty, who did not have the money to buy food for themselves ...