🔊 Listen ⏸ Pause ▶ Resume ⏹ Stop  The Great Depression of the 1930s: A Global Economic Catastrophe and Its Resolution The Great Depression of the 1930s is the most severe and prolonged economic downturn in modern history, lasting nearly a decade from late 1929 until about 1939. Far more devastating than any recession before … Continue reading The Great Depression of the 1930s