Talk:Great Depression

First Sentence Wrong

The current version says: "The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression that took place mostly during the 1930s, beginning in the United States". This is wrong. Trouble started in London/England/GB and continuously affected other places. On the other hand side, damage done to the U.S. economy was so bad that other economies e.g. in South America and on continental Europe were badly affected as well at this point, while the initial British failure of stock markets and related bank collapses were not able to do such enormous harm. In fact, it needed the leading economy to collapse to create such a global crisis, and the leading economy of these days had been the U.S.A. So the article should be re-written/ corrected to tell the actual story and to reflect all relevant facts in a precise and sufficient way. 188.99.107.40 (talk) 11:20, 14 June 2021 (UTC)

The Great Depression only happened in the United States,not worldwide. Luke Skywalker 350 (talk) 16:14, 15 December 2023 (UTC)

That is incorrect. Read Great Depression#Socio-economic effects. Regards, Thinker78 (talk) 04:22, 16 December 2023 (UTC)

Sorry about that. I just learned that it happened in the U.S. Luke Skywalker 350 (talk) 16:34, 18 December 2023 (UTC)

Vietnam

The first phase of the Vietnamese revolution began in 1930 partly because the world depression then began to hit the Indo-Chinese export economy while simultaneous crop failures and famines intensified the popular suffering in the crowded delta regions. The Vietnam Nationalist Party attempted a military rising, starting in February with a mutiny of troops at Yen Bai on the Chinese border, which the French crushed with such severity that the party was all but destroyed. The newly unified Communist network, however, receiving a great influx of ardent revolutionaries, proceeded to stir up many strikes, demonstrations, incidents, and even peasant risings. The French used their Foreign Legion in a small-scale war to get the situation under control in 1931, and as a result thousands were killed, tried, executed, or deported.

Works cited

• Fairbank, John K.; Reischauer, Edwin O.; and Craig, Albert M. East Asia: Tradition & Transformation. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1978; reprint ed., Manila: G. Miranda & Sons, n.d.

Myanmar

• From the Great Depression to Riots and Rebellions — Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.52.197.131 (talk) 08:12, 27 December 2022 (UTC)

Chart colors

The chart has a line that is red and blue, but the coloring is not explained. What does it mean? Kdammers (talk) 23:04, 27 January 2023 (UTC)

Semi-protected edit request on 16 May 2023

Yes October 24, 1929 fell on a Thursday not Tuesday meaning it would have been October 22 which was known as “black Tuesday” as the author states and therefore it should be edited to reflect the actual date of the event. 2603:8090:103:1E00:919A:F646:73A9:B84 (talk) 11:19, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

 Done switched back to Black Thursday as the date is correct. Tuesday would've been the following Tuesday and the 29th Cannolis (talk) 14:59, 16 May 2023 (UTC)

I believe the Great Depression started on October 29th, not the 24th — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.254.140.77 (talk) 23:14, 18 January 2024 (UTC)

the depression of 20th century

how great depression still plays a role in this century 41.116.194.249 (talk) 12:23, 30 October 2023 (UTC)

Extremely Light on Causes. . .

The introduction states that the stock crashes may have been more a symptom than a cause of the Great Depression, followed by a sentence-length list of the economic conditions that may have made the country vulnerable to such a crash. And that's about it. The section on the stock market crash has no causes listed whatsoever. Surely we can do better than this?! 64.38.189.209 (talk) 17:17, 10 October 2024 (UTC)

We can. We have a detailed article on Causes of the Great Depression. Dimadick (talk) 14:55, 11 October 2024 (UTC)