How long did the great depression last?!?!?!?!?

Question

answer asap (as soon as possible) please!!!!!!!!

Answer 1

I would suggest that it was ended somewhat sooner than the last answer suggested. In my opinion it ended sometime before the end of ww2, more specifically when the u.s. got involved in the war. The emergence of the Military industial complex created many jobs and a thriving middle class, thus effectively ending the great depression.

Answer 2

From Black Tuesday, October 24 1929 until November 1954.
After an amazing five-year run that saw the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) increase in value fivefold, prices peaked at 381.17 on September 3, 1929. The market then fell sharply for a month, losing 17% of its value on the initial leg down. Prices then recovered more than half of the losses over the next week, only to turn back down immediately afterwards. The decline then accelerated into the so-called "Black Thursday", October 24, 1929. A record number of 12.9 million shares were traded on that day.

At 1 p.m. on Friday, October 25, several leading Wall Street bankers met to find a solution to the panic and chaos on the trading floor. The meeting included Thomas W. Lamont, acting head of Morgan Bank; Albert Wiggin, head of the Chase National Bank; and Charles E. Mitchell, president of the National City Bank. They chose Richard Whitney, vice president of the Exchange, to act on their behalf. With the bankers' financial resources behind him, Whitney placed a bid to purchase a large block of shares in U.S. Steel at a price well above the current market. As amazeir confidence in the market, but their efforts failed to stop the slide. The DJIA lost another 12% that day. The ticker did not stop running until about 7:45 that evening. The market lost $14 billion in value that day, bringing the loss for the week to $30 billion, ten times more than the annual budget of the federal government, far more than the U.S. had spent in all of World War I.[5]

An interim bottom occurred on November 13, with the Dow closing at 198.6 that day. The market recovered for several months from that point, with the Dow reaching a secondary peak at 294.0 in April 1930. The market embarked on a steady slide in April 1931 that did not end until 1932 when the Dow closed at 41.22 on July 8, concluding a shattering 89% decline from the peak. This was the lowest the stock market had been since the 19th century.[6]

Salsman observed that "As late as April 1942, U.S. stock prices were still 75% below their 1929 peak and would not revisit that level until November 1954—almost a quarter of a century later."[4]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wall_Street_Crash_of_1929

Answer 3

Roughly from 1929 to 1945. (WW2 was the catalyst that brought the end of the depression)

Answer 4

1929 to 1940 or 41. ww2 got us out

Answer 5

Just until the great prozac showed up.

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