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Great Depression and World War II

Great Depression & New Deal

October 29, 1929 – the problems started

Black Thursday, October 24, 1929

agriculture underwent a huge crisis

FDR’s New Deal Programms

Roosevelt had a lot of new deal ideas

court packing

strengthen good neighbour policy

Prior to collapse, many banks across the United States participated in unsafe banking practicies.
One of the biggest problems was making risky loans to businesses, farmers, and families
In October 1929, the stock market in the United States crashed… Those who invested their money
lost it all. The rest of America began to fear for their money as confidence in our economy began to
drop. This led to so called Bank Panic. As bank panics occurred around the United States, bank runs
soon followed…
Bank failures and closures caused a chain reaction among other banks across the United States.

US Diplomacy: 1921-1933
The Washington Conference 1921-22 (Naval Rivalry, East Asian Stability and the Road to Pearl
Harbour)
Washington Naval Conference (US, Britain, Japan, France, Italy)
The Dawes Plan – 1924
-Agreement between Germany and America over reparations
- Temporary measure
- Designed to strengthen Germany’s economy and help stabilise currency
The Young Plan – 1929
- Agreement between Germany and America over reparations
- Intended as final settlement of reparations (Germany took part in negotiations for first time)
- Reparations reduced to 37 00 million marks

Kellogg-Briand Pact: 1928 (15 nations committed to outlawing aggression and war settling
disputes)

The Spanish Civil War

Senator Gerald Nye

!934-36: Nye Committee Senate Hearings-Isolationism
WWI Needless, fought for “merchants of death”: that bankers wanted war to protect their loans &
arms manufacturers to make money
Resulted in congress passing several neutrality acts

The Great Depression; economic depression

US- Canada Relations until 1935 and from 1935

War Plan Red – The United States’ Secret Plan to to Invade Canada and Canada’s Secret Plan to
invade the United States

Ogdebsburg Agreement

Save our sons – American movement

a good neighbour policy – towards a peaceful hemisphere

Neutrality Acts passed in 1930s’ in response to growing turmoil

The road to War II

US & Canada: Ogdensburg Agreement

Lend Lease – arms for those fighting aggression but come and get them

US-UK:lend lease act 1941(?)

co ja robie tuu u u co ty tutaj robisz
kazdy powiedzial to co wiedzial wszyscy zgadzaja sie ze soba niech bedzie tak jak jest

1943

US Military in WW II