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The economic crisis beginning with the stock market crash in the United States in 1929 and continuing through the 1930s; a worldwide economic downturn resulted.
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(1929-1941) period of very low economic activity in the U.S. and throughout the world.
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The depression that began in 1929 and lasted well into the 1930s, in the United States, Europe, and other industrialized parts of the world. [Origin]
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A period of time from 1929 to 1941 in which the economy experienced high rates of unemployment (averaging well over 10%), low production, and limited investment. This period of stagnation prompted rad [..]
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A deep, worldwide, economic contraction beginning in 1929 which caused particular hardship in Germany which was already reeling from huge reparation payments following World War I and hyperinflation. [..]
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The term applied to a period of economic hardship between 1929 and 1937. Unemployment reached levels of 30 percent by 1933 and did not fall below 12 percent until the start of World War II in 1939. The depth of the crisis exposed the absence of a true welfare system to care for the needy and led to greater government involvement in the economy and [..]
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The Great Depression was the severe economic depression that affected the industrialized western world between the years 1929 and 1939. The collapse of the United States stock market in 1929, which led to a dramatic downturn of the American economy that ultimately spread throughout the industrialized world, marked the beginning of the Great Depress [..]
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A period of the deepest worldwide economic decline in history. It began in October 1929 following the collapse of the Wall Street Stock Exchange and ended in about 1934.
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Definition Worldwide economic collapse following the stock market crash in 1929, in which unemployment remained high for an extended period and many businesses failed.
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The worldwide economic downturn that began in 1929 and ended in the late 1930s. It started in the United States and is often associated with the stock market crash on October 29, 1929.
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A period of severe economic contraction during the 1930s when unemployment remained high and many businesses collapsed. Followed the US stock market crash of 1929.
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The world depression of the 1930s was the greatest peacetime economic catastrophe in history. There had been hard times before, but never without war, ...
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This article summarizes the theoretical framework and the diagnostic procedures that economists use to construct and test theories of depressions and ...
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We survey papers that seek model-based answers to the following questions regarding the Great Depression. What caused the worldwide collapse in output ...
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This was a period of economic collapse between 1929 and 1941. It was the result of many factors, most notably the stock market crash of 1929.
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Era when there was such good soup everyone formed round-the-block lines for it.
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A period of global economic contraction that began in 1929 and that lasted in some regions until the late 1930s. The Great Depression affected production, trade, finance, employment, and standards of living throughout most of the world.
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