USA Participation in Great Depression, Totalitarian Regimes and World War 2

USA participated in the Great Depression and in WWII, but they didn’t participate in totalitarian regimes because during that time the country was recovering from the Great Depression. But the Great Depression indirectly was a cause for the totalitarian regimes because that combined with the World War I, provoked economic hard times and people needed a governor to control all chaos and crisis.

 Since the economy crashed in the country’s government, they were trying to reactivate it. Later on in 1941, Japan attacked the Pearl Harbor because the president Roosevelt decided to shut off the American trade with Japan. Only a day after that event United States declared war on Japan and a few days later Germany and Italy declared war on United States. Factories in USA converted from civilian to war production really fast, men went to armed forces, and women took their places in war plants. In 1942 government also set up a civil-defense system to protect the country from attack.

The main causes are: The World War I, which provoked that many European countries had a bad economy. Also the Treaty of Versailles, stated by the Big 4, which states that Germany had to pay all the reparations of France and Great Britain, U.S.A view this as an opportunity of investment and make more money. U.S.A lends money to European countries especially to Germany, France, and Great Britain for them to reconstruct their nations; they will pay back with some interests. Then U.S.A asks that money because they didn’t have and they need it, but Germany didn’t have money, they spend it on reparations and debts, so the Great Depression begins with the Stock Market crash in 1929 .No one had money, many banks and factories collapsed, there was unemployment, suicides, overproduction, investors withdrew money from European countries, and the foreign trade was slow.

All the events had a relation, the WWI caused the Great Depression, and USA didn’t participated in Totalitarian regimes that were caused by the Great Depression because they were still recovering, but the Totalitarian Regimes caused the World War 2. USA played an important role in the events that participated.

Bibliography

United States History. 15 March 2011 <http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1661.html>.

World War II History Info. 15 March 2011 <http://www.worldwariihistory.info/WWII/United-States.html>.

Timeline

1929

• The stock market chrashed
• March 4th, Herbert Hoover is inaugurated as President June 15th, Agricultural Marketing Act passed

1930

• USA bank goes bankrupt
•  Banks have suspended operations

1931
• January 7th, the Committee for Unemployment Relief releases a report on unemployment showing that 4 to 5 million Americans were out of work.

• June 5th, Chancellor Bruning announces that Germany was no longer going to pay reparations under the Young Plan

• October 16th, New York Federal Reserve Bank's discount rate raised from 1.5 percent to 2.5 percent.


1932
• 1,493 banks have suspended operatins during 1932


1933
• Franklin Roosevelt becomes president of the USA

• New Deal- Roosevelt made these plan to reactivate economy
• March 9th, Emergency Banking Relief Act passed, providing for federal bank inspections


1939
• The Great deprssion is over


1940
• September 16th, Selective Training and Service Act passed, requiring men between the ages of 21 and 35 to register for military training


1941
• December 7, Japan attacks Pearl Harbor-361 Japanese warplanes attack American airfields and shipyards, disabling 19 ships, destroying 200 planes, and killing over 2300 men. Southeast Asia, Hong Kong, Malaya, Philippines soon fall to Japan.

Bibliography
America's Great Depression. 14 March 2011 .