Not because I was cosmically destined to be a successful first-grade teacher; not because I carry a recessive successful reading teacher gene. Successful reading teachers are not born; they are well taught, well prepared, confident in their ability to teach every child to read, and trusted to do so.
Causes of the Great Depression. The period from 1920 to 1929 is known as the Roaring Twenties. Those years were exciting, fascinating, and entertaining for the U.S. population, whose sons had just fought and won World War I (1914â18), the war that had promised to end all wars.
The Great Depression lasted from 1929-1939. What caused the Great Depression, the worst economic depression in the history of the United States? The truth is that is not possible to point to just one factor. Instead a combination of domestic and worldwide conditions led to the Great Depression.