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

• Herbert HooverRelated: The crash and ensuing depression dominated Hoover’s presidency.

• Hoover DamRelated: Dam construction provided jobs during the economic collapse, though planning preceded it.

• The General Theory of Employment, Interest and MoneyRelated: Persistent mass unemployment made the book’s challenge to self-correcting markets urgent.

• AustrofascismRelated: Economic hardship intensified Austria’s political instability before authoritarian rule.

• Calvin CoolidgeRelated: The Depression began months after Coolidge left office, complicating later assessments of his economic policies.

• Credit crunchBroader topic: Bank failures and collapsing money and credit magnified the downturn in the United States.

• Hollywood's Golden AgeRelated: Hollywood expanded mass entertainment even as audiences faced economic hardship.

• Lillian HellmanRelated: The era’s inequality and insecurity inform the social conflicts in Hellman’s drama.

• MacroeconomicsBroader topic: Its scale exposed the limits of prevailing explanations and reshaped economic policy.

• National accountsRelated: The crisis exposed governments’ need for systematic measures of economic activity.

• National SocialismRelated: The crisis accelerated Nazi electoral gains by deepening hardship and distrust of democratic government.

• ReichstagRelated: Economic collapse intensified political polarization and weakened support for parliamentary coalitions.

• Roaring TwentiesNarrower topic: It followed the boom and crash, turning the Roaring Twenties into a stark before-and-after in economic history.

• Wall Street crash of 1929Narrower topic: The crash helped precipitate this prolonged crisis but did not alone cause it.

• Wallace CarothersRelated: Carothers’s career and final years unfolded during this period of widespread economic hardship.

• Congress of Industrial OrganizationsNarrower topic: Mass unemployment and industrial upheaval shaped the conditions in which the CIO organized.

• COVID-19 recessionCompared with: Its depth and duration contrast with the sharp but comparatively brief initial COVID-19 contraction.

• Eddie CantorRelated: Cantor’s radio and film work provided popular entertainment during the economic crisis of the 1930s.

• Effective demandRelated: Mass unemployment and weak spending made demand deficiency an urgent economic problem.

• Golden Gate BridgeRelated: Construction began during the Depression, when the project provided jobs and relied on bond financing.

• Migrant MotherNarrower topic: The photograph became a widely recognized representation of American hardship during this crisis.

• Panic of 1893Compared with: It exceeded the Panic of 1893 in duration and scale while echoing its banking and employment crises.

• Smoot–Hawley Tariff ActNarrower topic: The tariff became entangled with the crisis, though it did not cause its onset.

• 1932 Summer OlympicsRelated: The economic crisis sharply reduced the number of nations and athletes able to attend.

• Baby boomCompared with: Economic hardship and delayed family formation preceded the postwar rise in births.

• Bonnie and ClydeRelated: Economic hardship formed the backdrop for the couple’s crime spree and public image.

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

• Civilian Conservation CorpsNarrower topic: Widespread unemployment made immediate work relief a central purpose of the corps.

• 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.

• Ben BernankeNarrower topic: It was the central historical case behind Bernanke’s early research on financial crises.

• 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.

• History of the United StatesBroader topic: The crisis changed expectations of federal responsibility and reshaped American society.

• 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.

• Economic crisisBroader topic: Its depth and duration made it the defining modern example of systemic economic collapse.

• 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.

• Irving FisherBroader topic: Fisher interpreted its persistence through the interaction of excessive debt and falling prices.

• John DillingerNarrower topic: Dillinger’s notoriety grew during a crisis that shaped public attention to crime and poverty.

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