Many of the wealthy in Australia continued life like they always had, enjoying private parties and dances, horse races, ocean voyages and fashion parades. Their ignorant beliefs were that extreme poverty was caused by laziness and lack of good character, rather than an economic depression. In Sydney, the wealthy believed that camps for the unemployed on Sydney's foreshore were hideous, and that to allow them to stay there for months was insanitary and unsafe to the general public. They asked what right they had to reside in Sydney.
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Herbert Hoover was president when the great depression began.Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president through the rest of the great depression and most of World War 2.Harry Truman was president during the final part of World War 2.
The Great Depression, 1929 to 1940. Most countries economies failed during the Great Depression, so they frequently turned to a strong leader with easy answers to solve their problems.
war production during the war helped industry and pulled nations out of the Great Depression.
It led to the Great Depression because the U.S. was in debt to other countries