• Crash Course US History: The Great Depression
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[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GCQfMWAikyU[/media] :V Sounds familiar.
This is the nicest interpretation of Hoover's policy I've ever heard.
The illustrated pop culture references honestly distracted me more than kept me interested.
The raging economics debate in the comments reminded me of this masterpiece. [video=youtube;d0nERTFo-Sk]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0nERTFo-Sk[/video]
He looks like Mathew Perry. I want Mathew Perry for the next episode.
The reason the government didn't do enough was intentional and goes to the core of american belief of the government staying out of business and enterprise and allowing people to be as self sustainable as possible. When the great depressing hit, this proved to be catastrophic.
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