Imagine that you are living in a country where there are plenty of resources around plentry of food to eat and plenty of goods to use but the people are still very poor. Imagine that just untill a few weeks ago, you were living happily with your family and didn't have to worry about money at all,but today you are without a job. Most stores have gone out of business, the banks won't lend you any money, and no one is willing to offer you a job. How would you feel? Depressed?
This is exactly what happened bank in 1929 in the US. Stocj prices fell, banks closed their doors, factories were shut diwn,and people were unmployed.the economically dark years that followed are now know today as the great Depression.
This period continued for several years and eventually affected other countries the world over, and later gave rise to the most horrible tragedy in human history- World war ll