Great+Depression

=__Great Depression__=

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Unemployment skyrocketed during the Depression years, reaching levels as high as one third of the population. Output shrank greatly, falling by ten percent a year from 1929 to 1932. Nearly half of the banks of the United States failed during the Depression. Crop prices fell by over fifty percent. People went hungry because so much food was produced that production became unprofitable. Others were unemployed because they had produced more than could be sold. The thing that got us out of this terrible was World War II.=====

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