The Great Depression in the United States Economy

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Business economics - Economic and Social History, , course: Economy Development, language: English, abstract: The Great Depression was the worst economic epidemic in the 20th century and the worst in the United States of America. The global economic downturn that began in 1929 as a cause of the crash of the stock market lasted until 1939 took a long duration and caused a serious depression which was experienced by many countries. Its origin was the United States of America, leading to deflation in the prices of commodities, dropping of demand in credit, disruption of trade that resulted in unemployment and poverty.