Discuss the main causes of the Great Depression.

Discuss the main causes of the Great Depression.
What depression-fighting strategy underlay the so-called First New Deal, and why did the Roosevelt administration change course in 1935, giving rise to the so-called Second New Deal?
Which New Deal programs have had the greatest long-term effect, and how did ideas about the role of government change as a result of the New Deal?
How did American Culture – including both the mass-entertainment industries and the efforts of novelists, artists, photographers, and composers – respond to the events of the 1930s?