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吉林大学远程教育学院

    >>>>   Unit One
    >>>>   Unit Two
    >>>>   Unit Three
    >>>>   Unit Four
    >>>>   Unit Five
    >>>>   Unit Six
    >>>>   Unit Seven
    >>>>   Unit Eight
    >>>>   Unit Nine
    >>>>   Unit Ten
    >>>>   Unit Eleven
    >>>>   Unit Twelve
    >>>>   Unit Thirteen
    >>>>   Unit Fourteen
    >>>>   Unit Fifteen
    >>>>   Unit Sixteen
    >>>>   Unit Seventeen
    >>>>   Unit Eighteen
    >>>>   Unit Nineteen
    >>>>   Unit Twenty
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-one
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-two
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-three
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-four
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-five
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-six
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-seven
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-eight
    >>>>   Unit Twenty-nine
    >>>>   Unit Thirty

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Background Information

The Great Depression: The Great Depression was the severest economic crisis in American history. It began with the disastrous stock-market collapse in Wall Street on Oct, 29, 1929 (also known as Black Friday), and ended in late 1941 when the U.S. entered World War Ⅱ. During its worst period, which was in the early 1930s, sixteen million Americans ( about one-third of the labor force) become unemployed and production decreased by 40%. In 1932, Franklin Roosevelt was elected president. He carried out his New Deal measures to strengthen government control over the economy and provide public job for the unemployed. But the Depression did not end until the government began its defense spending before World War Ⅱ.