Question 104: When did the Great Depression start?

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• The Great Crash (1929)
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• Stock market crash of 1929
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In October 1929 the stock market crashed and many people lost their savings overnight.

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• Attack on Pearl Harbor (1941)
• End of the Civil War (1865)
• End of World War I (1918)

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