The Great Depression Explained Like You’re 5

It's the 1920s. The party's roaring, the stock market is soaring, and everyone from the barber to the shoeshine boy is getting rich. They call it the Roaring Twenties, and people believe the good times will last forever.

But what happens when the music stops?

In this video, we pull back the curtain on the Great Depression, the terrifying economic collapse that wiped out fortunes overnight. We'll explore how reckless speculation, bank failures, and a decade of denial turned the American Dream into a nightmare of hunger and dust.

Discover the chain of events that led to the 1929 stock market crash, the desperate measures of the Hoover administration, and the radical changes of Franklin D. Roosevelt's New Deal.