Great Depression (1929)

GPTKB entity

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf economic crisis
gptkbp:cause gptkb:drought_(Dust_Bowl)
gptkb:stock_market_crash_of_1929
bank failures
reduction in consumer spending
gptkbp:currency gptkb:gold_standard
gptkb:U.S._dollar
gptkbp:effect homelessness
bank closures
mass unemployment
decline in industrial output
widespread poverty
gptkbp:endDate 1939
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:World_War_II
gptkbp:GDP about 30% in the United States
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Great Depression (1929)
gptkbp:legislature gptkb:Glass-Steagall_Act
gptkb:Securities_Act_of_1933
gptkb:Social_Security_Act
gptkb:Emergency_Banking_Act
gptkbp:location gptkb:United_States
worldwide
gptkbp:mediaType gptkb:Of_Mice_and_Men
gptkb:The_Grapes_of_Wrath
photographs by Dorothea Lange
gptkbp:notableEvent gptkb:New_Deal
gptkb:Bonus_Army_March
gptkb:Smoot-Hawley_Tariff_Act
Dust Bowl
bank runs
rise of fascism in Europe
gptkbp:notablePerson gptkb:Franklin_D._Roosevelt
gptkb:Herbert_Hoover
gptkb:John_Maynard_Keynes
gptkbp:policy New Deal programs
banking reforms
public works projects
monetary policy changes
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Roaring_Twenties
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Federal_Reserve
gptkb:Keynesian_economics
deflation
banking reforms
global trade collapse
gptkbp:significance largest economic downturn of the 20th century
transformed economic policy worldwide
gptkbp:startDate 1929
gptkbp:unemploymentRate about 25% in the United States
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Weimar_Government
gptkbp:bfsLayer 7