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The Great depression strikes

Published on Nov 18, 2015

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The Great depression strikes

By Taryn Ledogar

German inflation

  • To pay the debt of the war gerany printed money
  • The value of the mark decreased

value of the mark

  • with the value of money decreasing goods became very expensive
  • A loaf of bread went from being less than a mark to 200 billion marks
  • money was even thrown out because of how worthless it became

GERMANY'S ATTEMPT at STABLE econmy

  • Germany recovered form inflation because of the international committe.
  • lead by Charles Dawes, who was an American banker.
  • The Dawes plan provided 200 million dollars from the united states
  • the economy began to recover, there were more loans to the United states 

Financial Collapse

  • The american economy sustained most of the worlds economy
  • wealth wasn't distributed properly
  • no money to buy anything meant less goods what meant less jobs
  • overproduction made things more expensive 

Stock Market

  • In september stock market were unnatrally high
  • investors began to sell their stocks
  • Thursday October 24 the stocks had become very low
  • stock market crashed

STOCK MARKET collapses

  • people couldn't afford to pay the money they owed
  • high priced stocks were now worthless

Great Depression

  • Many were unemployed
  • production, prices, and wages declined
  • buinesses failed and banks closed

effects around the world

  • Austria’s largest bank failed
  • in Asia farmers and urban workers suffered as the value of exports fell
  •  products as sugar, beef, and copper dropped, prices collapsed.

United States tries to recover

  • The first presidental election after the deppresion was F.D.R.
  • he quickly began a program called the New Deal

The new deal

  • Large public works projects helped to provide jobs for the unemployed
  • government spending would create jobs 
  • government gave finacial help

The united states recovers

  • The new deal did help the untied states to recover
  • The country stated to regain their faith in the government