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Economics professor Christopher Clarke joins WIRED to answer the internet's burning questions about The Great Depression. What caused The Great Depression? How bad as The Great Depression? What did people eat? How was the military affected during the Great Depression? What would happen if there were another run on banks like in 1929? What affect did Herbert Hoover's policies have? Who made it through the Great Depression easiest? Answers to these questions and many more await on Great Depression support.
0:00 Great Depression Support
0:15 How bad was The Great Depression?
0:59 What caused The Great Depression?
4:16 Who decides it’s a Great Depression?
4:55 Failing to see what’s so “great” about it honestly
5:28 Smoot-Hawley Act
7:01 Great Dust Bowl
9:28 How was the military affected during the Great Depression?
10:18 Getting a lot of “Great Depression” vibes from this
11:31 Who made it through the Great Depression easiest?
12:32 Hoovervilles
13:29 Hoover’s Policies
14:55 FDR’s Fireside Chats
15:34 The Gold Standard
17:27 Hands off our gold, Uncle Sam
18:39 FDIC
19:53 What would happen if there were another run on banks?
20:43 The New Deal
22:52 Great Depression cuisine
23:17 Where was the fed during The Great Depression?
25:19 Fabled market crash reactions
25:37 Works Progress Administration
26:48 WW2 and The Great Depression
Director: Justin Wolfson
Director of Photography: Charlie Jordan
Editor: Richard Trammell
Expert: Christopher Clarke
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