Great Crash

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Great Crash

1. Three trading days where the New York Stock Exchange lost a significant amount of value very quickly. The Great Crash presaged the Great Depression, though it had already started in some areas. See also: Black Thursday, Black Monday, Black Tuesday.

2. An alternative (and slightly inaccurate) term for the Great Depression.

Great Crash

The major declines in economic activity and stock prices that occurred in 1929 and the early 1930s.

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Provident, founded in 1880, provided loans during the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and both World Wars.

Provident staff facing the axe; FINANCE; Redundancy threat as shares plunge

The country was still in the grip of the Great Depression which began with the Stock Market crash of 1929.

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The Wall Street Crash of 1929 brought to a shuddering halt the excesses of The Roaring Twenties which had followed World War One.

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This reference contains entries and primary documents related to the Great Depression and the New Deal in the US, from the stock market crash of 1929 to the beginning of World War II in 1939.

The Great Depression and the New Deal: Key Themes and Documents

Through 53 paintings, organised thematically to show bright-light cities, prairie pastorals, the churn of industry, and nostalgia for American history, the exhibition charts the anxieties of the decade between the Wall Street Crash of 1929 and the United States' entry into the Second World War in December 1941.

Stars and strife: the figurative painters of the 1930s presented a bleak if sympathetic vision of America

The cost of this 'intrusion' must have contributed to the Wall Street crash of 1929 and spawned the consequent world depression and the rise of fascism and World War Two.

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Adding insult to injury," Kelleher said, Donohue "also previously worked at the SEC when the agency was missing in action in the years leading up to the worst financial crash since the Great Crash of 1929.

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The Cavendon Women is the unabridged audiobook adaptation of a dramatic novel following two families, the Inghams and the Swanns, from weekend gathering in the summer of 1926 to the horrendous economic devastation of the Wall Street crash of 1929.

The Cavendon Women

Joseph S Maresca traces the American experience from the crash of 1929 through the post-World War II recovery with parallels to the Great Recession of 2008 and the current efforts to return to prosperity.

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This was the pattern in the Wall Street crash of 1929, the Tokyo stock market crash of 1990 and the worldwide crisis of 2008.

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The Stock Market Crash of 1929 was known by which name, after a day of the week?

Quick Quiz

During the post-WWII period, the New York Stock Exchange began using mass marketing and public relations to rebuild its credibility and lure new individual investors from a population that still remembered the crash of 1929.