The Great Depression

1. slide The Great depression The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries; It was the largest and most important economic depression in modern history; It is used as an example of how far the world's economy can fall; Historians most often use as a starting date the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday;