Great Depression and New Deal Almanac | End of the Great Depression

• The Cost of War
• A reluctant nation
• Industry and government at odds
• A new relationship between industry and government
• Mobilization progresses
• Effects of mobilization
• New Deal Programs Wind Down
• The New Deal ends
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The 1930s were a troubled decade, economically and politically, throughout much of the world. In the United States the stock market crash in 1929 and the economic depression that followed brought widespread unemployment reaching up to 25 percent of the workforce (over twelve million workers) by early...