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    In the United States, the Great Depression began with the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and then spread worldwide. The nadir came in 1931–1933, and...
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    in stock prices in the United States, leading to a period of economic depression. The economic contagion began around September 1929 and led to the Wall...
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  • The Great Depression in the United Kingdom also known as the Great Slump, was a period of national economic downturn in the 1930s, which had its origins...
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  • United Kingdom Great Depression in the United States The Great Depression: America, 1929–1941, an American novel The Great Depression (book), a 1990 Canadian...
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    distributed free, or at low cost, in the United States and Canada around the time of the Great Depression. Depression glass is so called because collectors...
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    an effect on the music industry in the United States, specifically with jazz. Speakeasies became very popular, and the Great Depression's migratory effects...
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  • History of the United States, Freedom from Fear covers the history of the United States during the Great Depression and World War II. It won the 2000 Pulitzer...
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    woman who was the subject of Dorothea Lange's photograph Migrant Mother (1936), considered an iconic image of the Great Depression. The Library of Congress...
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    Railroads were affected deeply by the Great Depression in the United States, and some lines were abandoned. A great increase in traffic during World War II...
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  • This section of the timeline of United States history concerns events from 1930 to 1949. 1930 – The Great Depression in the United States continues to worsen...
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    The worldwide Great Depression of the early 1930s was a social and economic shock that left millions of Canadians unemployed, hungry and often homeless...
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    colonial rule. Beginning in 1929 in the United States, the Great Depression soon began to spread to countries around the globe. A global financial crisis...
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    Strikes in the United States in the 1930s played a major role in reshaping the economy as it recovered from the Great Depression. Unions gained millions...
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    Pea-pickers (category Great Depression in the United States)
    poor, migrant workers during the Great Depression. These people were unskilled, poorly educated workers, employable only in menial jobs, such as harvesting...
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    Penny auction (foreclosure) (category Great Depression in the United States)
    the property without an opportunity to recuperate the balance of the loan. The term arose during the foreclosure of farms during the Great Depression...
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  • agricultural sector. In the United States, historians refer to the Depression of 1873–1879, kicked off by the Panic of 1873, and followed by the Panic of 1893...
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    World War I (1917–1918) and the Great Depression in the United States (1929–1939) combined to drastically reduce the number of both major and minor producers...
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  • Netherlands. In the United States, the Wall Street Crash of 1929 is understood as the start of the Great Depression. But in the Netherlands the depression started...
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    trading partners in retaliation were major factors of the reduction of American exports and imports by 67% during the Great Depression. Economists and...
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  • The Great Depression is the fourth studio album by American rapper DMX. It was released on October 23, 2001 by Ruff Ryders Entertainment and Def Jam Recordings...
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  • The initial economic collapse which resulted in the Great Depression can be divided into two parts: 1929 to mid-1931, and then mid-1931 to 1933. The initial...
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  • early years of the Great Depression. The phrase was the title of a chapter in the 1963 book A Monetary History of the United States by Friedman and his...
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    1931. The bank run on its Bronx branch is said to have started the collapse of banking during the Great Depression. The Bank of United States was chartered...
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  • Depression, mostly during the 1930s Recession of 1937–38, an economic downturn that occurred during the Great Depression in the United States 2020 stock market...
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    and the subsequent catastrophic collapse of the NYSE in late 1929 is often highlighted in explanations of the causes of the worldwide Great Depression. It...
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    The causes of the Great Depression in the early 20th century in the United States have been extensively discussed by economists and remain a matter of...
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    Wooden nickel (category Great Depression in the United States)
    locally in times of severe economic distress such as financial crises and the American Civil War. During the Great Depression, after the failure of the Citizens...
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  • Throughout the industrial world, cities were devastated during the Great Depression, beginning in 1929 and lasting through most of the 1930s. Worst hit...
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    Succotash (category Cuisine of the Thirteen Colonies)
    during the Great Depression in the United States.[citation needed] It was sometimes cooked in a casserole form, often with a light pie crust on top as in a...
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    the consensus view among economists and historians is that "The cyclical volatility of GDP and unemployment was greater before the Great Depression than...
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