The Great Depression is considered to have begun in which year?

Correct answer: 1929

The direct answer is B, 1929. The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic crisis that is conventionally dated from the Wall Street stock-market crash in the United States in October 1929. The crisis then spread through banking failures, falling production, unemployment and reduced international trade. Step by step: remember the major financial crash; place it in 1929; connect its effects with a global depression. Option A, 1918, marks the end of the First World War and is not the conventional beginning of the Great Depression. Option B is correct because 1929 is the standard starting year taught in history. Option C, 1945, marks the end of the Second World War, after the Depression had ended. Option D, 1960, is much later and is unrelated to its beginning. A careful student should know that economic hardship developed over time, but MCQs use 1929 as the accepted date. Memory cue: Wall Street crash, 1929, Great Depression.