What areas were hit hardest by the Great Depression?

What is often referred to as the Dust Bowl and the Great Depression hit the great farming areas of the US the hardest. States like Oklahoma, the panhandle of Texas, Kansas, Colorado and Portions of New Mexico were devastated. read more

Throughout the industrial world, cities were hit hard during the Great Depression, beginning in 1929 and lasting through most of the 1930s. Worst hit were port cities (as world trade fell) and cities that depended on heavy industry, such as steel and automobiles. Service-oriented cities were hurt less severely. read more

No other developed nation was as hard-hit. Canada was, and still is, a country dependent on trade. In the 1920s, commodities -- such as wheat -- and lumber products, including newsprint, were particularly important. read more