Great Depression

The Great Depression was a massive global economic recession (or "depression") that ran from 1929 to approximately 1939. It led to numerous bank failures, high unemployment, as well as dramatic drops in Gross Domestic Product (GDP), industrial production, stock market share prices and virtually every other measure of economic growth. It is generally considered to have bottomed out in 1933, but it was not until well after the end of World War II before such indicators as industrial production, share prices and global GDP surpassed their 1929 levels.

See also

• Aftermath of World War I
• Business cycle
• Economic collapse
• Great Depression in Canada
• Great Depression in Australia
• Great Depression in the United Kingdom
• Great Depression in the United States
• Great Depression in France
• Great Depression in Italy
• Great Depression in Ireland
• Great Depression in Spain
• Great Depression in Latin America
• Great Depression in Germany
• Great Depression in Scandinavia
• Great Depression in Eastern Europe
• Great Depression in East Asia
• Great Depression in Japan
• New Deal