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Economic history · The United States
Learn the key events of the Great Depression: what caused it, how it spread around the world, what it did to people, and how it ended.
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1 The Wall Street Crash of 1929 Learn why share prices rose and fell so fast in 1929, and what part the crash played in the Great Depression. 8 steps · 10 min Done 2 The US Banking Panics — 1930 to 1933 Learn why thousands of American banks failed from 1930 to 1933, and how that shrank the money supply. 7 steps · 10 min Done 3 The Gold Standard in the Depression Learn how the gold standard spread the Depression around the world, and why leaving it helped countries recover. 6 steps · 9 min Done 4 Britain Leaves Gold and the Tariff War Learn why Britain left the gold standard in 1931, and how the turn away from free trade hit world trade. 7 steps · 10 min Done 5 Unemployment and Hardship in the Depression Learn how high unemployment went in the Depression, and what it did to the people who lived through it. 8 steps · 12 min Done 6 The New Deal Learn what Roosevelt's New Deal did, and which parts of it lasted. 7 steps · 10 min Done 7 The End of the Great Depression Learn why the recovery from the Depression stalled in 1937, and what finally ended it. 7 steps · 10 min Members Done Members · final stepFinal test and Ceteris Certificate15 questions, 19 minutes. Pass to earn a graded certificate (Pass, Merit or Distinction) for The Great Depression, with a link anyone can use to check it. Membership opens the final module, the test and the certificate.Leave an address and you will hear as each module goes up.
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