was what really helped the US get out of the Great Depression, and not necessarily the programs of the New Deal. Women joined the workplace in mass, thanks to some lady named Rosie who liked to flex her muscles in a riveting way. 9. Sometime along the way FDR died and Harry S Truman took over. The "S" in Harry S Truman stands for S, which I guess is better than if it stood for "Shithead." 10. The soldiers came home and went to college and made a lot of babies, thus the moniker "baby boom" which has now led to an old people boom which is destroying social security, which was started in the New Deal. Thanks to this book, I was able to fill in some gaps in my lagging knowledge and this is what I know now about the ten things I knew beforehand: 1. There were no lions. 2. The stock market was not the cause of the Great Depression, in fact less than 2.5% of the population owned stocks in 1928. The depression was caused by a multitude of factors stemming from the haggling over WWI reparations in the US and Europe, the reliance of the US on the gold standard, the lack of a centralized/stable banking system in the US, the natural ending of a growth cycle with US consumers, the overbuilding and overproduction of machinery (especially cars), and numerous other factors. Plus, many people were really really poor before the Great Depression and