What are the similarities and the differences between the great recession and the great depression?

Well to start with the "Recession" Tops The Great Depression. When the stock market crashed in October 1929, it was only the beginning of a long period of economic decline and uncertainty that would last more than a decade. ... In 2011 those few years often where described as the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression. But how do the two differ in a quick answer. The difference between the two is that the unemployment rate in "The Great Recession" was less severe than in "The Great Depression"