The problem with the Great Depression of 1929 and the subsequent years
was that actually government did nothing to intervene. President Herbert
Hoover believed that government should interfere and that the market
will balance itself out. That is one of the reasons that President
Roosevelt won with a landslide with his promise of the New Deal.
In
2008 the government took a much active role in combating the Great
Recession. For example, the government even bailed out some banks that
were in trouble as well as provided emergency help. They also proposed
and passed many laws that would help prevent this kind of situation in
the future.
African americans were treated badly by not getting enough food, they would work hard then not get a lot a food<----Just one, u can try to do the rest.
I assume the 30s and 40s during WWII. The men were drafted to war so the women took their jobs.
The religion splitting into two major branches, the shiite and the sunni.