The Great Depression was one of the hardest times for Americans and lasted for at least a decade, bringing hunger, poverty, and unemployment to millions of lives to a country which had been one of the richest and industrially advanced in the world. Before the 1930's there was an economic boom, but in 1929, the economy of the country began to decline. On October 1929 the share values on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed. The economic …showed first 75 words of 575 total…

…showed last 75 words of 575 total…radio to let them know what he was doing to help them through that difficult time. Roosevelt did a number of things to try and lift America out of the depression. Eventually Roosevelt managed to restore confidence in the Federal Government. But it was the Second World War that really ended the depression in the USA because when the USA declared war in December 1944, a large number of jobs were created and unemployment disappeared quickly