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  1. The Great Depression (1929–1939) was a severe global economic downturn that affected many countries across the world. It became evident after a sharp decline in stock prices in the United States, leading to a period of economic depression. [1] The economic contagion began around September 1929 and led to the Wall Street stock market crash of ...

  2. United States - Great Depression, Economic Crisis, 1930s: In October 1929, only months after Hoover took office, the stock market crashed, the average value of 50 leading stocks falling by almost half in two months. Despite occasional rallies, the slide persisted until 1932, when stock averages were barely a fourth of what they had been in 1929. Industrial production soon followed the stock ...

  3. Oct 29, 2009 · The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in the history of the industrialized world, lasting from 1929 to 1939. At its peak, the U.S. unemployment rate topped 20 percent.

  4. Mar 24, 2018 · 50 Black and White Studio Portraits of Beautiful Swedish Women in the Early 1930s. Women's fashion in the 1930s was more conservative than that of the optimistic 1920s. Another contrast in fashion in the 1930s from that of the decade before was a return to a more feminine look for ladies. Women's curves were no longer being de-emphasized ...

  5. Jörberg and Krantz (1973) wrote in Economic and Social Policy in Sweden, 1850-1939 that Sweden's solution to the unemployment problem during the Great Depression differed from that in most other ...

  6. Even though people were broke in the 1930s they still didn’t dress like it. Advertisement. Men still dressed up nice, sporting fedoras and double-breasted overcoats. The boys wore short shorts and tall socks. The women wore dresses and kept their hair close to their head. Fur was in and so were floral patterns.

  7. Stockholm Exhibition (1930) Coordinates: 59°19′57″N 18°06′57″E. Poster for the 1930 Stockholm Fair. The Stockholm Exhibition (in Swedish, Stockholmsutställningen) was an exhibition held in 1930 in Stockholm, Sweden, that had a great impact on the architectural styles known as Functionalism and International Style .

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