Zusammenfassung der Ressource
What caused the Great Depression?
- The Economy
- CAUSES
- Over Production
- Industry and Agriculture
- over produced products beyond the demand
- Business cut production
- Workers suffered wage cuts
and layoffs
- Consumers had little money to spend
- Demand fell for good
- Repeat the cycle
- Farm Crisis caused
Europeans to stop buying
American produce
- The widening gap between rich and poor
- 1% of Americans owned over 33% of all American assets
- The rich saved lots of money and
disrupted the economy's monetary
flow
- Stock market crash
- Caused by buying on the margin
- Stock brokers selling their shares for stronger British shares
- Effects
- Deflation
- Unemployment at 25%
- Drop in Production
- Politics
- Causes
- Hoover's no government interference with business policy
- Few governmental regulations
- Effects
- FDR elected 1932
- New Deal programs increased government role in the economy
- Hitler gains power in Germany because of the hyperinflation and the poverty at the time