USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The Depression was the longest and deepest downturn in the history of the United States and the modern industrial economy. The Great Depression began in August 1929, when the economic expansion of the Roaring Twenties came to an end. A series of financial crises punctuated the contraction.

Detailed explanation-2: -It began after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors. Over the next several years, consumer spending and investment dropped, causing steep declines in industrial output and employment as failing companies laid off workers.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Depression was the longest and deepest downturn in the history of the United States and the modern industrial economy. The Great Depression began in August 1929, when the economic expansion of the Roaring Twenties came to an end. A series of financial crises punctuated the contraction.

Detailed explanation-4: -Why is the period from 1929 to mid-1930s known as the Great Depression? It resulted in unemployment. There was a decline in production. Number of civilian deaths increased.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Great Depression began in 1929 with a steep fall in New York Stock Exchange and continued well into the mid-1930s. During depression agricultural prices fell, industrial production came to a halt, and millions of people became jobless and homeless.