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Great Depression of the 1930s
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The Great Depression was a global economic slump that began in the United States following Black Thursday, the Wall Street panic of October 1929.On October 24, 1929, shares on Wall Street collapsed, setting off a chain of bankruptcies and defaults that spread the world over. Hundreds of millions of people were out of work across the globe throughout the 1930s.
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