Great Depression
1929–1939 · Event
Worst economic downturn of the industrial era, with mass unemployment; dated here from the 1929 crash to the outbreak of war in 1939, though timing varied by country and US recovery came only during WWII.
On these timelines: The Great Depression, Master, Economic History, USA, Hitler's Rise to Power
More from The Great Depression
- Creditanstalt fails (1931)
- Britain abandons the gold standard (1931)
- The bank holiday stops the panic (1933)
- American banking crisis (1930-33) (1930)
- Glass-Steagall walls off the banks (1933)
- The Roosevelt recession (1937)
- Smoot-Hawley Tariff (1930)
Around 1929
- Presidency of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (1923)
- The Holocaust (1933)
- World War II (1939)
- Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany (1933)
- Spanish Civil War (1936)
- Founding of the Soviet Union (1922)
- Hitler's rule of Germany (1933)
- Pop music: the 1920s (1920)
- Pop music: the 1930s (1930)
- Stalin's rule of the Soviet Union (1924)