the Great Depression and the escalating events that led to it. This

will provide adequate foundations to bring up questions and attempt to

answer them in an objective fashion as to why and how the Depression

affected different industrialized countries in different ways.

The core of the debate will consist of detailed comparable

analyses of the consequences of the Depression with an emphasis on

the economic aspects. The conclusion will provide a brief overview of

the ways used by the different governments to get out of that dark

When studying the Great Depression and it's effects, it is not

unusual for historians to choose World War I as a starting point for

their investigation. The reason for that is the importance of the

repercussions the conflict had on the economies of all the countries

First of all, the War made it impossible for Europe to

maintain previous levels of production. For example, before the War,

France, the U.K. and Germany accounted for about 60 percent1 of the

world's exports of manufactured goods, a share of the

The depression was of especially great magnitude in the U.S.

economy until 1932, France did not abandon the gold standard until

which forced the speculators to revise their expectations. Anxiety

1938, Roosevelt, facing the semi-failure of his New Deal, finally gave

Still, compared to most other industrialized countries, the

accomplish at least that. However, the realization of the plans was

the economy through lower interest rates and increased the stock of

Reserve had provided additional funds to the banking sector after

downfall of American trade volume, which was probably the last thing

clear). What proved more effective at bringing economic solutions to

it gave itself a competitive advantage via-a-vis those countries which

collection of programs aimed at stimulating different sectors of the

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