USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The poor congregated in cardboard shacks in so-called Hoovervilles on the edges of cities across the nation; hundreds of thousands of the unemployed roamed the country on foot and in boxcars in futile search of jobs. Although few starved, hunger and malnutrition affected many.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Great Depression that began at the end of the 1920s was a worldwide phenomenon. By 1928, Germany, Brazil, and the economies of Southeast Asia were depressed. By early 1929, the economies of Poland, Argentina, and Canada were contracting, and the U.S. economy followed in the middle of 1929.

Detailed explanation-3: -Whom did the Great Depression affect? Nearly everyone was affected by the Great Depression, but they weren’t all impacted to the same degree. Many people lost their job, but even those who didn’t experienced some negative effects from the reduced levels of investment and economic growth.

Detailed explanation-4: -The Depression was particularly long and severe in the United States and Europe; it was milder in Japan and much of Latin America.