The Great Depression Explained | Calm History to Fall Asleep To

The Great Depression, slowly explained, is a calm, long-form documentary that follows the story from the stock market crash of 1929 to the New Deal. We start on Wall Street in the roaring twenties. Then we follow the crash, the bank failures, the gold standard and the winter of 1933, at a pace meant for relaxing and drifting off. You will hear how a boom was built, why a market crash turned into a decade-long slump, and what Hoover and Roosevelt actually did. We also mark the places where historians still disagree. Settle in, dim the lights, and let the story unfold. Chapters 00:00 Intro 01:16 A Street Called Wall 07:01 How a Boom Is Built 13:19 Thursday, Tuesday, and the Long Fall 18:32 Why a Crash Became a Depression 24:20 The Chains of Gold 29:36 When the Banks Closed 35:15 Life at the Bottom 40:39 Hoover's Hard Choices 46:31 The Winter of 1933 51:57 Gold, Dollars, and Alphabet Agencies 58:27 The Second New Deal and the Setback 1:04:28 What the Depression Left Behind Imagery: public-domain and CC0 works from U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, via FRED, Wikimedia Commons (public domain). Museums and archives do not endorse this channel. Data: Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis) and the World Bank. Narration: AI voice. Script researched, written and fact-checked for this channel. Music: original ambient score. Educational content, not financial advice.