The Great Depression of the 1930s was the longest economic disaster of the twentieth century. The Great Depression was a chain reaction affecting most areas of the world. ... Before all of this, towards the end of the 1920s, the stock market had crashed causing banks to fail. This had a large deal to do with the extreme length and devastation of the Great Depression. ... Difficulties with the production and distribution of goods complicated the Great Depression. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

After WWI, delegates met in Paris to draw up what became the treaty of Versailles. Probably one of the biggest failures ever, both the winners and losers of WWI left Paris unhappy and dissatisfied. The allies still wanted more while the losers of the war were left miserable after loosing territories...

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In 1929 Hitler finally got his chance, the American stock market crash of 1929 affected nearly every nation in the world and German prosperity soon came to an end as a result of the Great Depression, vast unemployment and hunger that followed. ... Nazism over the course of its era was not well accepted by most Germans until after the Great Depression. ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate