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The Great Depression started with the Oct 1929 market crash, but FDR wasn’t inaugurated, and the New Deal started, until 1933. What did Hoover’s administration do for those 3+ years, and why was is so ineffective?

by /u/jasper_bittergrab in /r/AskHistorians

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