The great depression

The stock opened a global economic downturn that extended throughout the decade of the 30 and had strong repercussions in the economic, social and political, this is known as the Great Depression. Unemployment surged to all social classes, prices fell and there was immigrations caused by unemployment. 

There were about 14 million unemployed. The crisis did not stop in the U.S., because the economic dependence of other countries depended on the United States. Was a big hole in world production and gender tensions in the labor market.

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