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=Chapter 25: The Great Depression=

**Main Ideas:**
 * 1) The economic and structural weaknesses underlying the apparent prosperity of the 1920s that led to the Great Depression, and how the stock market crash of 1929 touched it off.
 * 2) The effects of the economic pressures of the Depression on the American people, especially farmers, minorities, and women.
 * 3) The cultural milieu of the Depression Era as reflected in photography, radio, movies, books, and the Popular Front, and how the culture reflected both the escapist and populist tendencies of the time.
 * 4) The frustrations of Herbert Hoover's administration in dealing with the Depression, and how his inability to ameliorate hard times swept Franklin Delano Roosevelt into the presidency.


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