Event

Great Depression

1929–1939 · 20th century

The Great Depression was the worldwide economic slump that followed the Wall Street Crash of October 1929 and lasted through much of the 1930s. World trade and commodity prices collapsed, causing mass unemployment and bank failures. Export economies such as Chile, dependent on nitrate and copper, were among the hardest hit, and the crisis destabilised governments across Europe and Latin America, including Greece and Chile.

Great Depression
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Dominion of NewfoundlandDominion of New ZealandKingdom of IcelandWeimar RepublicFirst Austrian RepublicSecond Hellenic RepublicSocialist Republic of Chile

Great speeches

Roosevelt: The Only Thing We Have to Fear4 March 1933

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