A time where countries were bombed, when suicide was a daily thing, and a time where Jews were killed and shunned in Europe; it was a time known as The Great Depression. The Great Depression was a gruesome decade for families, countries, and nations. Franklin. D. Roosevelt once said, “The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.” That’s exactly what happened to America. We pushed Mother Nature, and she pushed back. After all, this decade of hardship that shook the universe was one that would never be forgotten. When Herbert Hoover was elected in 1928, right before The Great Depression, it was a time where society was prospering. Unfortunately, shortly after he took office the Stock Market plummeted sending America into chaos. As the people struggled for survival, they turned to their president for answers. They relied on him, they pleaded for help, yet he did nothing. Hoover believed that people should not rely on the government as much as they did. Though the form of government known as the Constitution states that it is “by the people, for the people”, it is not the government's job to bail them out. He felt that self-reliance, private business, and relief organizations were the answer to this problem. Some families suffered so much they thought the only way to escape the devastation, defeat, and debt was to commit suicide. Fortunately, for some families, suicide was not the first choice to escape this phenomenon.The theaters were another way to leave reality behind and focus on the positive rather than the negative.The film The Wizard of Oz was released August 25, 1939. This was one of the first films in color but also still had black and white, the black and white symbolised what it was like to have no color because that was what reality was like in The Great Depression. The Wizard of Oz was one of the movies that brought happiness but also was …show more content…
At first, British Prime Minister, Neville Chamberlain, did nothing when Hitler began the invasion of the Rhineland and Sudetenland regions of Europe. Eventually, the British began resisting Hitler and fought back. Hitler had the plan to bomb London and other British cities by air. This all happened when Winston Churchill was the new British Prime Minister after Chamberlain was asked to resign. These events caused Britain to declare war on Germany and brought them out of the depression that affected Europe. In Germany, Hitler was climbing in political rank and responsibility, taking advantage of the world wide depression. Germany was also dealing with the results of the Treaty of Versailles, or B.R.A.T. The word B.R.A.T stands for blame, reparations, army, and territory. B.R.A.T is part of the Treaty of Versailles, the treaty stripped Germany from it’s money, army's, territory, and power. Germany was in ruins, families living on the streets starving, cold, and unsheltered. with this in mind, Hitler did the only thing he thought was right, as outlined in his book Mein Kampf. He blamed the Jews for all of Germany’s problems. He said that all Germany’s problems had been caused by Jews. The people believed in what he said. The people would bully and abuse the Jews, and in WWII their abusement was a time in history known as the