The Great Depression The Great Depression of the 1920’s and 1930’s has had a strong and long lasting effect all over the world. It ruined the strong economies and destroyed the smaller ones. Every government had its own opinion of what and how to get itself out of this crisis. As the struggle of the depression kept on growing Great Britain, United states of America, Germany and Japan initiated their own plan of escaping the grasp of the depression. There are similarities and differences in the strategies that the four nations use to predict a solution the depression. As a result of the depression two kinds of government emerged. In the United States and Great Britain it contin