The Great Recession of 2008 and the Great Depression

  What are the similarities and the differences between the Great Recession of 2008 and the Great Depression? How did the government policies between 1920 and 1965 affect the course of the U.S. economy? How did the Korean War and the Vietnam War affect the U.S. economy? Which region of the United States has been the most important to the course of the U.S. economy in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries: the Northeast, the Midwest, the South, or the West?