English


Great Depression. Lessons of the Past

Genre: Modern History
Running time: 44'
Directed by: Vitaliy Yakushev
Year of production: 2009




On the 24th of October 1929 the crash happened at New York Stock Exchange. Panic seized the Wall Street. This day became known in the school text-books as “Black Thursday”.All that had happened to America was called later on the “Great Depression”. The hardest economic crisis of the century was broken down into components, the reasons were searched for and lots of mistakes were made while seeking the way-out.