The United Sates faced the Great Depression. The Great Depression was the worst economic slump ever in U.S. history, and one which spread to virtually the entire industrialized world. The depression began in late 1929 and lasted for about a decade. ... The weakness of the international economy certainly contributed to the Great Depression. ... As countries began to meet the Great Depression, powerful leaders arose from the cloud caused by it. ...

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After World War I, the United States went back to their old principle, "We shun political commitments which might entangle us in foreign wars,"" as FDR said in 1936 during the Great Depression . ... The United States went through a lull between the wars, from 1918 to 1939. ... In 1929 a chain reaction from downward up to the crashing of the stock market began the Great Depression. ... But America was hit the worst by the Depression. ... This caused other countries disturbance, but they were all busy with their own affairs "getting through the Great Depression. ...

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In 1929 the American Stock Market crashed, a powerful symbol of the growing depression. ... Since the German government suffered badly in the depression, the existing Weimar government, put in place by the victorious allies, was blamed (John). Throughout the depression the government became more and more disliked since it was indecisive and no central power, but is not where Hitler entered the picture. ... In 1939 the Nazis proceeded toward the plan to exterminate all Jews. ... Speaking to his Generals in October 1939, Hitler said, "If it becomes clear that Britain and under its leadership Fr...

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The depression worsened, and violence in the street became common. ... Papen was a rich and elegant aristocrat, an expert jockey in his spare time, and a great socialite. ... Hitler renewed his acquaintance with a young woman he had first met in 1929. ...

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In 1928 universal suffrage for women was obtained, paradoxically during a time when growing economic depression and slump appeared to lend increasing weight to Marxist analyses of the inevitable failure of capitalist economic systems. ... The First and Second World Wars (1914–18 and 1939–45 respectively) mark, in time and in their effects, momentous changes on a global scale: this kind of worldwide effect is a phenomenon of the century. ... As such, it relates closely to Impressionism in the visual arts, and shares many structural features with the new medium of the cinema, which ...

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