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stock market crashed on october 29th, 1929
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Black Tuesday marked the beginning of the Great Depression, which lasted until the beginning of World War II.
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the southwestern Great Plains region of the United States suffered a severe drought.
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The New Deal was a series of domestic programs, public work projects, financial reforms, and regulations enacted by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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Adolf Hitler's invasion of Poland in September 1939 drove Great Britain and France to declare war on Germany.