1930s
The thirties was a decade of great despair around the world. All counties were up in arms about civil as well as national disputes. In order to fully comprehend the events of the thirties, an overview of major countries such as the United States, Japan, Spain and Germany will perhaps enable one to understand the extremities of this decade. Herbert Hoover was the President of the United States of America when the great stock market crash occurred on October 24, 1929. It was seen, that although American productivity was high and real wealth grew, there were major factors that concluded to this crash. Continuing farm depression, unequal distribution of personal incomes, shaky credit, and speculative practices to outright fraud by brokers on Wall Street were suspected to lead to this economic disaster. Hoover insisted that America could get out of the slums on their own with pride and work. This meant that he would not allow the government to give federal aid. People were jobless, homeless, starving and the spirit in America was only of despair. The country was ready for new leadership when the presidential election came in 1933 and Franklin D. Roosevelt won for the democratic party
In 1931, Japan seized Manchuria from China. It was believed that militarists provoked the attack to reassert power both in domestic and foreign affairs. In 1935, Japanese soldiers were photographed celebrating on top of the Great Wall when they seized Chuyugkuan in North China. These repeated acts of aggression brought an unofficial war that would last from 1937 to World War II. After the fall of Shanghai, Japan bombed Chinese cities Nanking and Canton. They also bombed and machine gunned U. S. gunboat Panay. They apologized and America accepted, but tensions began to grow. It was believed that Japan was instigating a war with the US because they were envious of the wealth and power of England and the United States. The wanted to be rid of their own people in the government who were advocating friendship with England and America and wanting to adapt policies similar to theirs. This would eliminate existing social and political evils and establish new order in Japan. In response to Japan's actions, teenage girls stopped buying Japanese products. This seemed hardly effective considering that England and America were selling scrap iron and oil which was used in their cause against China. War went on until the great bombing of Pearl Harbor would draw the world awake. Spain and Germany were both very similar in ideas towards fascism. Adolf Hitler was able to take advantage of president Von Hindenburg's death and seize dictorial power. In 1935, Mussolini went to war with Ethiopia in hopes of reestablishing the ancient Roman Empire. He finally conquested Ethiopia in 1936. There was a revolt in army officials against the leftist government in Spain which led to civil war. In that same year, Nazi Germany occupied Rhineland. The Nazis assassinated the chancellor Dullfuss of Austria in order to complete invasion by 1938. The German army swarmed Austria and "liberated" seven million people. In September 1938, the Munich agreement
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