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The Great Depression (1929-34) was “attended by momentous consequences in the economic as well as in the political sphere.” Comment.

  • UPSC 1996
  • World Wars

The Great Depression (1929-34) was above all an economic catastrophe of unprecedented scale, whose structural damage to production, trade, and money reshaped the world economy before it reshaped its politics.

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  • The Banking and Financial Collapse
  • Collapse of Trade and the Turn to Protectionism
  • Unemployment, Deflation, and the Gold Standard
  • Divergent National Responses
  • Political Consequences (Secondary)

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