The Great Depression

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The financial house of cards collapses and the overinflated stock market plunges into a Great Depression. It started in America, but practically overnight, an economic blizzard grips the world.

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1929, the Financial House Department collapses and the over inflated stock market plunges into a great depression of financial pain that grips the world. For the majority it means to be interminable line outside stock wages. Desperately hoping for a job that rarely comes, a new hunger, and the march of becoming employed emanations capital where they keep domestic problems. America would now isolate herself more than ever for the international scene. It started in America but practically overnight and the economic blizzards swept the world. In Japan, France, Britain, always the unemployed, the suit kitchens, the grinding poverty, and of the despair.
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