The Great Depression
The Great Depression was the deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world. In the United States, the Great Depression began soon after the stock market crash of October 1929, which sent Wall Street into a panic and wiped out millions of investors.
3 Main Reasons For The War
1. Too much buying on credit.
2. Farmers overproduced crops.
3. Speculations in the stockmarket.
2. Farmers overproduced crops.
3. Speculations in the stockmarket.
Why did the banks collapse ?
The banks collapse because when the market crashed because all the people ran to the banks to get their money out.
The Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl was the name given to the Great Plains region devastated by drought in 1930s depression-ridden America.
The Rise Of Dictators:
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was the leader of Nazi Germany from 1934 to 1945. He initiated World War II and oversaw fascist policies that resulted in millions of deaths.
Benito Mussolini
Benito Mussolini created the Fascist Party in Italy in 1919, eventually making himself dictator prior to World War II. He was killed in 1945.
Josheph Stalin
Joseph Stalin ruled the Soviet Union for more than two decades, instituting a reign of terror while modernizing Russia and helping to defeat Nazism.
Hideki Tojo
Wartime leader of Japan’s government, General Tôjô Hideki (1884-1948), with his close-cropped hair, mustache, and round spectacles, became for Allied propagandists one of the most commonly caricatured members of Japan’s military dictatorship throughout the Pacific war. Shrewd at bureaucratic infighting and fiercely partisan in presenting the army’s perspective while army minister, he was surprisingly indecisive as national leader.
Communism
Before the Russian Revolution of 1917, “socialism" and “communism” were synonyms. Both referred to economic systems in which the government owns the means of production. The two terms diverged in meaning largely as a result of the political theory and practice of Vladimir Lenin (1870–1924).
Facism
A governmental system led by a dictator having complete power, forcibly suppressing opposition and criticism, regimenting all industry, commerce, etc., and emphasizing an aggressive nationalism and often racism.
Allied Powers
In World War II the chief Allied Powers were Great Britain, France (except during the German occupation, 1940–44), the Soviet Union (after its entry in June 1941), the United States (after its entry on December 8, 1941). The Allied Powers were the countries that opposed the Central Powers in the First World War.
Hitlers Youths
The Hitler Youth was a logical extension of Hitler’s belief that the future ofNazi Germanywas its children. The Hitler Youth was seen as being as important to a child as school was. In the early made it clear as to what he expected German children to be like