… areas according to Vivian. He said, Salem was not really bothered by the Great Depression until around 1938 of ’39 and the affects were still very minor, and the Great Depression was pretty much over. This was true because Dent county didn’t have…

… affected as Canada was by the depression of the 1930's. During that time at least a third of the labor force became unemployed and many Canadians depended on welfare for survival. Canada, which was rich with raw materials, had become a great…

… ever in U.S. History, and one which extended to practically the entire industrialized world. The Depression began late in 1929 and lasted for about ten years. Many economists have their theories as to what brought all of this about. It is generally…

… undergone economic depression. The most recognized period of economic depression is called the Great Depression. The Great Depression is well known because of the seriousness of the stock market crash. The results of the crash were more serious than…

… the worst and longest economic collapses in the history of the modern industrial world. The depression lasted from the end of 1929 until the early 1940s. Although its’ origin was the United States, the depression spread to most of the world’s industria…

… think of the poor farmers in the Oklahoma Panhandle whose livie hoods were blown into the sky by years of drought and dust storms. The Great Depression had a devastating impact on the nation, spreading across the countryside and bringing hardship to…

… from 1939-1945. The war began in Europe on Sept. 1, 1939, when Germany attacked Poland, and ended on Sept. 2, 1945, with the formal surrender of Japan aboard the U.S. battleship Missouri in Tokyo Bay. The rival powers were the victorious Allies…

… lived in Ireland. By the autumn of 1845, when the Great Famine struck Ireland, there were more than eight million. Many of them were wretchedly poor, eking out a precarious living on tiny plots of land, and dependent on each year's potato crop Hunger…

… to mankind. Without it, our bodies would malfunction, and we would eventually all die. This majestic substance has a character that is found in no other place on earth. However water can cause catastrophic events to occur, one of them being a flood.…

… They were Sir Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Harry Truman, and Dwight D. Eisenhower. They smashed Nazi Germany's dream of world conquest. Sir Winston Churchill was born on November 30, 1874 in Oxfordshire, England. He graduated from…