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The 173 pages that link to Great Depression, each with the reason it gives.

• Bracero ProgramRelated: The 1930s deportations and repatriations it shaped formed a stark prelude to wartime recruitment.

• Dawes PlanRelated: The collapse of American lending exposed the weakness of Germany’s reliance on foreign credit.

• Jorge UbicoRelated: The collapse in coffee prices intensified Guatemala’s crisis before Ubico took office.

• Securities regulationRelated: The crisis gave securities reform urgency and shaped the case for stronger federal oversight.

• Buckminster FullerRelated: The crisis formed the backdrop to Fuller’s early efforts to rethink housing and production.

• Cowles CommissionRelated: The crisis intensified demand for quantitative explanations of economic fluctuations and policy.

• NeopreneRelated: Demand for a reliable rubber substitute grew as natural-rubber supply and prices became concerns.

• Oswald MosleyRelated: The crisis gave urgency to Mosley’s demands for sweeping economic intervention.

• Postwar consensusRelated: Mass unemployment weakened confidence that markets alone could secure economic stability.

• Regionalism (American art)Related: Its economic and social upheaval sharpened interest in ordinary Americans and their communities.

• Richard HofstadterRelated: The crisis and New Deal era formed the political setting of Hofstadter’s early adulthood.

• Saul BellowRelated: Bellow’s formative years unfolded amid the economic insecurity of the Depression.

• School lunchRelated: Unemployment and agricultural surpluses helped spur organized meal programs in the United States.

• Young PlanRelated: The crash intensified Germany’s financial crisis and undermined the plan’s payment assumptions.

• Catholic Worker MovementRelated: Its hardship shaped the movement’s focus on workers, poverty, and mutual aid.

• Glass–Steagall legislationRelated: The crisis intensified pressure for sweeping U.S. banking reform.

• Harry Dexter WhiteRelated: The crisis shaped White’s views on monetary cooperation and economic instability.

• John SteinbeckRelated: Its poverty and migration appear directly in Steinbeck’s major fiction.

• Margaret Bourke-WhiteRelated: Her photographs documented industrial decline and hardship during the crisis.

• Pearl divingRelated: The downturn weakened demand for luxury pearls, accelerating hardship in Gulf pearling communities.

• Secular StagnationRelated: The prolonged slump gave Hansen the setting for his original stagnation argument.

• American GothicRelated: The painting appeared during economic hardship that intensified public interest in images of American life.

• Animal spiritsRelated: The crisis made persistent investment collapse difficult to explain through ordinary price adjustment alone.

• Clifford OdetsRelated: Its poverty and labor conflicts supplied the circumstances of Odets’s early dramas.

• Four HorsemenRelated: Historical accounts sometimes frame its overlapping economic and social disasters through the horsemen metaphor.

• Streamline ModerneRelated: The downturn encouraged economical materials and designs that conveyed modern optimism.

• William C. DurantRelated: The crash devastated Durant’s later investment ventures and ended his attempt to return as an industrial power.

• American Scene paintingRelated: Economic hardship sharpened the movement’s attention to labor, poverty, and social change.

• Fireside chatsRelated: Economic collapse created the uncertainty the first chats sought to address.

• History of Economic ThoughtRelated: Its persistent unemployment undermined confidence in older accounts of automatic market recovery.

• Infamous DecadeRelated: Its effects on Argentina weakened the government before the 1930 coup.

• James BeardRelated: Beard’s early shift toward food work unfolded amid the economic pressures of the 1930s.

• Owen D. YoungRelated: The crisis undermined the financial and political conditions on which the Young Plan depended.

• Ramsay MacDonaldRelated: Its effects drove the unemployment and budget disputes that destabilized MacDonald’s second ministry.

• Revolution of 1930Related: The collapse in coffee prices intensified Brazil’s economic and political instability during the uprising.

• Scottsboro BoysRelated: Economic hardship drove many young people onto freight trains, including the teenagers involved.

• Silent GenerationRelated: Many Silent Generation members spent their childhoods amid economic hardship and its aftermath.

• To Kill a MockingbirdRelated: The film’s 1930s setting informs Maycomb’s poverty and social hierarchy.

• Wallis SimpsonRelated: Its hardships formed part of the wider setting in which the monarchy faced public scrutiny.

• Washington LuísRelated: The collapse in coffee demand worsened the economic pressures confronting his government.

• Alvin HansenRelated: The prolonged slump challenged Hansen’s earlier confidence in automatic economic recovery.

• Herbert C. BrownRelated: Financial hardship interrupted Brown’s education and led him to enlist in the U.S. Army.

• Huey LongRelated: The crisis made Long’s promises of income and wealth limits resonate with a broad audience.

• J. B. M. HertzogRelated: The crisis intensified the political and economic pressures confronting Hertzog’s coalition government.

• Maximiliano Hernández MartínezRelated: The collapse in coffee prices deepened El Salvador’s political and social crisis.

• PopcornRelated: Its low cost helped popcorn remain affordable entertainment during hard times.

• The Adventures of Augie MarchRelated: Its aftermath informs the economic insecurity surrounding Augie’s early jobs and family.

• The Road to SerfdomRelated: The crisis strengthened demands for government coordination that formed part of the book’s political setting.

• Anton MussertRelated: Economic hardship helped create an audience for Mussert’s anti-parliamentary message.

• Greatest GenerationRelated: Economic hardship formed the formative childhood and young-adult experience in the label’s definition.