The Great Depression refers to the worldwide economic depression just before World War II,beginning with the Wall Street Crash in October of 1929 and spread to nearly every country, lasting until the early 1940s.
Recommended Resources
About.com: Great Depression & New Deal
Offers details of the top five causes of the depression, including the 1929 stock market crash, bank failures, the reduction of purchasing, the American economic policy with European countries, and the drought in the Mississippi Valley, known as the Dust Bowl, in 1930.
http://americanhistory.about.com/od/greatdepression/tp/greatdepression.htm
History.com: The Great Depression
Delves into the Great Depression which lasted from 1929 to 1939 and offers videos of Franklin Delano Roosevelt giving speeches as well as discussing the New Deal, soup kitchens, and the building of Hoover Dam.
http://www.history.com/topics/great-depression
Features hundreds of articles, letters, speeches, and other ephemera regarding the New Deal as well as a photo gallery with more than 5,000 images from the National Archives. Also provides an interactive online forum focusing on the depression.
http://newdeal.feri.org/
Companion site to the PBS film shares essays and photographs as well as the video of the film itself. Additionally publishes first-hand stories and accounts of descendants of people who lived through the 1930s.
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/dustbowl/
Gives an overview of the depression in the United States as well as internationally, outlines the main areas of depression, interventionist policies, and the collapse of world trade. Also discusses the "Dust Bowl," and offers a photo essay of the era.
http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/depression.htm
