Question 103: What was the Great Depression?

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• Longest economic recession in modern history
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A huge crisis in the 1930s: banks and factories closed, and millions of people lost their jobs.

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• A big war in Europe that lasted four years
• A time when many people moved to the West
• A sickness that spread across the whole world

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