"The 1929 Wall Street Market crash had a significant political, social and economic implications for all countries in the western world." ... However, the depression that followed the crash did not affect every country and was not solely caused by the fall of the stock market. ... The stock market had crashed due to over-production, more goods were being produced than people could afford. ... It was due to this decline that triggered the large amount of share selling on the stock market. ... When the Stock Market crashed America could no longer afford to lend money, leaving countries such a...

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The most influential event in world history after the 1900's is the great depression because of the decline in international commerce and stock markets around the world, the rise of Hitler, and Franklin D. ... The Stock Market became a very important aspect of the economy in the 1920's. ... Rascob, the vice-president of General Motors Corporation during the Twenties, declared that anyone that put $15 dollars a month in the stock market could make $80,000 dollars in twenty years. ... The crash of the Stock Market led to the Great Depression. ... The stock market crash of 1929 affected...

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The Great Depression of the 1930s was the longest economic disaster of the twentieth century. The Great Depression was a chain reaction affecting most areas of the world. ... Before all of this, towards the end of the 1920s, the stock market had crashed causing banks to fail. This had a large deal to do with the extreme length and devastation of the Great Depression. ... Difficulties with the production and distribution of goods complicated the Great Depression. ...

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After WWI, delegates met in Paris to draw up what became the treaty of Versailles. Probably one of the biggest failures ever, both the winners and losers of WWI left Paris unhappy and dissatisfied. The allies still wanted more while the losers of the war were left miserable after loosing territories...

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Many investors world-wide, felt the devastating, long-lasting effects of the falling prices at the New York stock exchange, which led to the depression. ... Other past events, such as the Nazis targeting certain groups after the Depression of 1929, had a more direct effect, allowing Hitler to become Chancellor. ... The Nazis were quick to take advantage of the economic problems that the Weimar Government faced and started to market themselves as "the party that may have the solutions to Germany's many problems." ... The Depression led to high unemployment because factories had clos...

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In 1929 Hitler finally got his chance, the American stock market crash of 1929 affected nearly every nation in the world and German prosperity soon came to an end as a result of the Great Depression, vast unemployment and hunger that followed. ... Nazism over the course of its era was not well accepted by most Germans until after the Great Depression. ...

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It didn't take very long; on October 29, 1929 the Stock Market crashed leaving worldwide effects with companies going bankrupt, banks failing, and people losing their life savings. ... The government had no power and so the Great Depression had started. ... During the world wide Depression, it was the people of Germany's responsibility to choose a leader by participating in the voting process. ... The people of Germany used what leverage they had to try and insure that Germany would have enough money and support to get through the Depression and in the future. ... However, many...

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An educated work force helped their economy, with the fast growing population provided a major market and a very skilled work force. ... Japan was hard hit by the world depression that began in 1929. The farmers who had grown the silk that was exported to the United States found no market for their product once the roaring twenties and the craze for silk stockings collapsed with the stock market crash. ...

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The governments were more often in a state of disarray than not, the populace was disillusioned and scared, and the Great Wall Street stock market crash of 1923 saw the economy crumble before the population's eyes. ... October 1929 marked a worldwide slide into the "Great Depression" due to the famous Wall Street Crash in the United States. ...

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Abstract In this paper I will attempt to show how Nazism came to power in the events before and during their time. I am going to try and prove that although many influences and events lead up to Nazi rule, the main theme is the desperation of the German people and ripe economic atmosphere. None of t...

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Impact the Wall Street Crash had on Germany In 1929, the US stock market collapsed and American loans were recalled. ... Germany was plunged into a Great Depression, with unemployment peaking at 6 million in 1932. ...

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Plus create a new trading partner, which Britain was always in the market for. ... The reperation payments coupled with the stock market crash and depression in the twenties totally changed Germany. ...

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Then the Great Depression came along and the countries that the Germans owed money to came to collect the money that was owed. The Great Depression was not only in the United States, but it affected the entire world. ... This would be the selling of "equipment, machine tools, ships, rolling stock, German investments abroad, and of any other enterprises" (Dept of State pg 44). ...

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