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your brought to you by the great depression because someone

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actually decided to colin Depression Great huge upgrade from the

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pretty good depression No Which of the following nations remain

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relatively unaffected by the great depression and hear your options

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Well let's start with b great britain didn't experience quite

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the same economic boom is the majority of the world

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did in the twenties it's downturn in the thirties might

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appear less severe It was affected in the last in

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what is referred to as the great slump which is

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such a british thing to call it all right Well

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next week a knockout see many american banks were loaning

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money to germany to help hey back reparations following the

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end of the first world war with the american well

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running dry germany found itself directly impacted by discourse depression

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which isn't half as quaint as the great slum answer

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d is also incorrect While the direct economy of japan

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didn't initially shrink a whole lot the global depression did

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take its toll japan's economy after all relies heavily on

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exports and when no one else has money well becomes

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kind of difficult to sell stuff which leaves us with

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correct answer a the ussr while the rest of the

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world's economies were happily trading with one another stalin's soviet

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union often toe isolate itself from foreign corporations countries and

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markets So when the rest of the world's markets went

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belly up ussr remained entirely insulated from the effects of

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course sounds Economy had its own problems in the thirties

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including the second largest famine and human history Hey its

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own economic depression wasn't explicitly caused by the great depression

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So it's still the correct answer In russia depression wants 00:01:36.365 --> [endTime] you

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