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The Great depression
The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn starting in most places in 1929 and ending at different times in the 1930s or early 1940s for different countries;
It was the largest and most important economic depression in modern history;
It is used as an example of how far the world's economy can fall;
Historians most often use as a starting date the stock market crash on October 29, 1929, known as Black Tuesday;