World History › Section W · Between the wars › Topic W.3
The Great Depression worldwide
The slump that began in the United States in 1929 travelled through loans, tariffs and the gold standard to every continent. How governments answered it, and how desperate voters responded, helped decide whether democracy survived the 1930s.
In this topic
- A crisis that crossed borders
- How the slump spread: loans, tariffs and gold
- Worked example: the banking chain of 1931
- Exporters of food and raw materials
- Japan and China
- Democracies respond
- The appeal of communism
- Fascist Italy and Spain's civil war
- Germany: depression to dictatorship
- Worked example: comparing three dictatorships
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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