Video on The Great Depression

Study The Great Depression using Online Video

Use these 4 online educational video titles to explore the economic and social conditions that contributed to the Great Depression, and survey the upheavals triggered by the stock market's collapse in 1929. These video presentations examine the excesses of the Roaring Twenties.  They reveal the effects of the depression on American society, and show how President Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal programs attempted to pull the country out of economic crisis.

Understand the conditions that contributed to the Great Depression, and survey the upheavals triggered by the stock market's collapse in 1929 - an event that ushered in the worst economic devastation in U.S. history Gain insight to the hardships that confronted Americans during the Great Depression, a period spanning the 1930s that was characterized by high unemployment, widespread poverty, and long breadlines, which finally ended when America entered World War II Examine the New Deal programs initiated by President Franklin Roosevelt's administration that attempted to pull the United States out of economic crisis Survey the social and economic backdrop of the 1920s, and gain insight to the nature of capitalism and how the Great Depression threatened America's capitalist economy.

• History > American History > The Great Depression
• The Causes (Runtime: 18:15)
• The Solutions (Runtime: 19:33)
• The Effects (Runtime: 13:47)
• The Economic Background (Runtime: 19:15)