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Great Depression
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Great Depression
"[Grant] Wood intended [American Gothic] to convey a positive image of rural American values, offering a vision of reassurance at the beginning of the Great Depression
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Dust Bowl 1930-1936
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Brazil's coffee exports plummet
"Between 1929 and 1932, coffee prices fell from 22.5 to 8 cents a pound" (Schoppa, 2021, p. 46). -
USSR famine - 5 million dead
Stalin's attempt to convert peasant farms into collectives yielded a famine that killed 5 million between 1931 and 1934.
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Japan invades Manchuria
Was a crucial event on the path to the outbreak of World War II.
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Franklin Roosevelt: U.S. President
U.S. President from 1932 to 1945
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German unemployment rate 30%
(Photo: Weimar and Nazi Germany, 2013) -
New Deal
"Though FDR’s New Deal programs were pragmatic attempts to deal effectively with the catastrophic economic situation" (Schoppa, 2021, p. 48).
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Hitler: German Chancellor
Adolf Hitler was the dictator of Germany from 1934-1945
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Australian/New Zealand unemployment 30%
"The bottom dropped out of the wool market in Australia and New Zealand, leading to 20 to 30 percent unemployment" (Schoppa, 2021, p. 47). -
Spanish Civil War
Spanish Civil War 1936-1939
(Photo: Fadiman, 1940) -
George VI: King of England
George VI became King of England after his brother abdicated. He ruled from 1936 to 1952.
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Nanjing Massacre
Part of Japan's vendetta against China. 300,000 died.
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Peel Commission Report
Recommended a two-state partitioning between Jews and Arabs in Palestine. Never was adopted.
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Chamberlain: Prime Minister of UK
Prime Minister from 1937 to 1940.
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German bombing of Guernica
German carpet bombing of Guernica, Spain
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World War II
World War II starts. It spanned from 1939 to 1945.
(Photo: Hughes & Royde-Smith, 2014).