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"Between Weedpatch and Lamont, Kern County, California. Children living in camp" by Dorothea Lange, April 20, 1940.  
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Between the Weedpatch
The Great Depression hit the United States on October 29, 1929 after the crash of the US Stock Market. The decade long catastrophe resulted in industrial production falling to one-third of its pre-Depression levels, thousands of banks were closed, and almost 13 million Americans were jobless. 
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Breadline
In the absence of substantial government relief programs during 1932, free food was distributed with private funds in some urban centers to large numbers of the unemployed
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Depression Breadlines in New York City
The stock market on Wall Street crashed on October 29, 1929, a pivotal contribution to the Great Depression — a decade-long economic catastrophe. By 1933, nearly 13 million Americans were unemployed.  
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Depression Soup Kitchen
The Southern Plains region of the United States suffered severe drought resulting in catastrophic dust storms during the 1930s. It came be be known as the "Dust Bowl."  With the destruction of crops, farmers lost their means of income. The Dust Bowl amplified the economic impacts of the Great Depression, forcing many farming communities to migrate for better living conditions and work.
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Dust Bowl
Soviet leader Joseph Stalin (left), US president Franklin D. Roosevelt (center), and British prime minister Winston S. Churchill (right) at the Tehran Conference. Tehran, Iran, between November 28 and December 1, 1943.
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Franklin Delano Roosevelt
This photograph, taken by Dorothea Lange, shows Florence Owens Thompson and her children in February or March of 1936 in Nipomo, California. Lange recounted later, "...There she sat in that lean-to tent with her children huddled around her, and seemed to know that my pictures might help her, and so she helped me. There was a sort of equality about it." 
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"Migrant Mother"
Poster by Mjölnir [Hans Schweitzer], titled "Our Last Hope—Hitler," 1932. In the presidential elections of 1932, Nazi propagandists appealed to Germans left unemployed and destitute by the Great Depression with an offer of a savior.
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Nazi propaganda election poster titled "Our Last Hope—Hitler"
The stock market on Wall Street crashed on October 29, 1929, a pivotal contribution to the Great Depression — a decade-long economic catastrophe. By 1933, nearly 13 million Americans were unemployed.  
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The Great Depression
Soup Line
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The Great Depression
Police search members of the SA (Sturmabteilung) for weapons as they gather for a rally. This photo was taken during the years of the Weimar Republic, before the Nazi rise to power. Germany, 1929–1932.
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The Police in the Weimar Republic
More than a hundred thousand demonstrators gather in front of Madison Square Garden to take part in an anti-Nazi protest march through lower Manhattan. May 10, 1933.
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The United States and the Nazi Threat: 1933–37
The stock market on Wall Street crashed on October 29, 1929, a pivotal contribution to the Great Depression — a decade-long economic catastrophe. By 1933, nearly 13 million Americans were unemployed.  
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US Stock Market Crashes
This 1919 photograph shows World War I destruction in Ypres, Belgium.
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World War I: Aftermath
Scene of destruction during World War I: panoramic view of the battlefield at Guillemont, September 1916, during the Battle of the Somme. © IWM (Q 1281)
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World War I and its Aftermath: Key Dates

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