Week of February 28, Wednesday Lecture

I. The Crash

IMAGE: The Stock Market Crash
IMAGE: A Bank Run

II. The Prosperity of the 20s

III. The Causes of the Depression

• International Roots
• Loose Banking and Stock Market Practices
• Unequal Distribution of Wealth in the 20s

IV. From Crash to Depression

• Downward Spiral
• Human Misery

IMAGE: Breadline
IMAGE: The Apple Seller
IMAGE: Isolation

• The Crisis Had Both an Urban and a Rural Face

IMAGE: Urban Hooverville

• Bonus Army

IMAGE: The Bonus Army
IMAGE: Clash With Police at the Anacostia Flats
IMAGE: Evicting the Bonus Army

• 1932 and the Depths of Despair

V. The Growing Demand for Government Action

return to From Prosperity to Collapse

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