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Who- consumers, investors, workers, Americans
What- Deepest, and Longest Economic downturn of the industrialized nations in the west.
When- 1929-1939
Where- Western Industrializations
Why- Stock Market Crash -
In Italy, Germany, and Britain it was ccommon to have a facist gov't due to the weakened gov't in the great depression
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Adolf Hitler, leader of nazis was elected chancellor of germany.
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violence aimed mostly at jews broke out and citizens gathered in the streets as Nazis destroyed jewish businesses and homes.
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Japan bombs Pearl Harbor
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America declares war on Japan
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America creates the War Production Board (WPB)
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Hitler killed himself.
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Invasion of normandy, dropping paratroopers, killing many and another defeat against Hitler
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By 1945 every 2 out of 3 Jews had been killed.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Premier Joseph Stalin, and Prime
Minister Winston Churchill met to discuss peace and end the war (Yalta Conference) -
America bombs Hiroshima, Japan, killing some 80,000.
Japan still did not surrender so 3 days later America drops another atomic bomb on Nagasaki Japan.