THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 1940
THE GREAT DEPRESSION
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The depression was severe, but only in the United States.
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Governments acted quickly and the depression only lasted two years.
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The depression caused revolutions all across the world.
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Many countries around the world experienced the economic depression.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Devastating effects were seen in both rich and poor countries with falling personal income, prices, tax revenues, and profits. International trade fell by more than 50%, unemployment in the U.S. rose to 23% and in some countries rose as high as 33%.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the height of the Depression in 1933, 24.9% of the nation’s total work force, 12, 830, 000 people, were unemployed. Wage income for workers who were lucky enough to have kept their jobs fell 42.5% between 1929 and 1933. It was the worst economic disaster in American history.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Great Depression that began at the end of the 1920s was a worldwide phenomenon. By 1928, Germany, Brazil, and the economies of Southeast Asia were depressed. By early 1929, the economies of Poland, Argentina, and Canada were contracting, and the U.S. economy followed in the middle of 1929.
Detailed explanation-4: -The economic troubles of the 1930s were worldwide in scope and effect. Economic instability led to political instability in many parts of the world. Political chaos, in turn, gave rise to dictatorial regimes such as Adolf Hitler’s in Germany and the military’s in Japan.