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P O S T WA R N E W S

THE FALLING ECONOMY


Economies in Ruin

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Germany
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler is an inspiring new leader coming into power in Germany, forming the Nazi party he wishes to spread his ideas and shares the German dream of nationalistic ideas. This way, Adolf was able to become chancellor in Germany, he believed in the fascist ideas of taking over the weaker countries and making more lebensraum, or living space.

WORK O M I L L I O N S e s Ui Tn O Ft s h a r d hi s o
Great Depr

! ! ! With the Post-War debt and failing economy, millions are out of work, looking for jobs, and living on the streets.
Sto ck Ma r ke t C r a s h
n New Yorks Wall street stocks were being shared, sold, and bought for various prices. The stock market was at an all time high during 1929 until prices began to lower and the stock market became very unstable. Over a short period of time, about a week, the stock market lowered drastically, going to one of its all time lows, until, eventually, it crashed.

Italy
Benito Mussolini
A newspaper editor and politician in Italy, Benito Mussolini, promises Italy that he will rebuild the economy and armed forces. Mussolini founded the fascist party in Italy. Publicly criticizing the government, fascists rose against it. The king of Italy named Benito Il duce and he took over power legally

historical norms, people began to panic and sold there stocks. With stock sales at a historical high, prices began to drop for almost every share in Wall street. With the end of the stock market it led to the beginning of the Great Depression forming the biggest nancial crisis of the 20th century. Many American citizens lost their homes, the country is in a huge amount of debt and unemployment. Almost all of the world was later aected by this huge even in America. America took the largest hit, with the fall of its own economy.

Japan
Emperor Hirohito
Hirohito gained control of Japan because of his heritage. He gained the throne in november 1928, and started ruling against a background of nancial crisis and increasing military power. He was not a very inuential leader, most of the actions leading up to and including world war II were by his high ranking ofcers.

Before this event, the stock market had a speculative boom causing hundreds of thousands of Americans to start investing in the stock market. The rising amount of prices caused more and more Americans to start sharing in the stock market way above

The Great Depression

ith the end of the rst World War, news was that many other countries besides America had some sort of war debt. Luckily, all of the ghting was not done on American soil. Therefore, the land was not ravaged and agricultural was saved. Due to the constant ghting, ravaged lands, and huge amount of loss. Germany, was blamed for the war suering a huge amount of blame for causing the war. With that blame came debt causing a large amount of ination within the country. With Germany and other countries in debt, America was excelling beyond its norms. With the stock market at an all time high, people panicked and it dropped suddenly causing a crash in the American economy. Most countries other than the United states were dependable on exports and imports from the US. However, with the sudden stock market crash there was barely any imports and exports due to lack of trade, money, and moral. Soon, countrys economies began to fell due to the lack of trade, because of the stock market crash of 1929 global

An unemployment soup kitchen, with people lined up in a huge line waiting to nd a bite to eat, waiting for a new job to open up.

trade ceased and the whole world was in a state of economic depression. People began to lose jobs, homes, investments, prot, and cash. Soon, more and more unemployment oces were opened. Germany, was probably the worst out of all, there was an insane amount of

money needed to buy even the smallest amount of goods, hundreds upon thousands of bills were found to be worthless unless being used by children to create small structures. There needed to be change and slowly there was recovery from all nations of the Great Depression.

Political Cartoon
This cartoon shows what happens when the stock market is falling, in this case, out of the sky. Once the stock market goes down, it destroys a lot of things that people own, such as their homes or most of their investments and other things important to living life.

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Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud was a very popular and famous psychiatrists during the 1920s. He was the rst person to come up with theories of the unconscious mind and dream interpretation. He inuenced many writers and artists with his theories of the unconscious.

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Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison was an American inventor and businessman who made a big impact on daily life. Most famous for his creation of the light bulb, he also made several other inventions such as the phonograph or a record player with a recording system.

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