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30 Eye-Opening Facts About Average Life During The Great Depression

Migrant Mother - Dorothea Lange

Shacks on the Anacostia flats, Washington, D.C. put up by the Bonus Army (World War I veterans) burning after the battle with the 1,000 soldiers accompanied by tanks and machine guns, 1932. Signal Corps Photographer/National Archives and Records Administration/Wikimedia Commons.

4. You Might Have Radicalized

Economic woes are one of the biggest reasons people turn to radical political ideologies. In 1929, Josef Stalin predicted that the communist party in the USA would lead a revolt to overturn the government. He was almost right – many people turned to communist ideology, thinking that it would reverse the Great Depression.

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