Great Depression in the Philippines

The Great Depression in the Philippines was a result of the impact of the economic downturn happening in the United States from 1929 to 1939. Being a colony of the US, the Philippines experienced falling prices of its key agricultural products and a rice crisis, causing peasant violence throughout the islands.

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