1930's+World+Events

1930 World Events

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**//__The Great Depression__//**
[|The Great Depression]began in the United States, with the stock market crash of October 1929. Stockholders, and banks lost tons of money; and within a short amount of time many banks, factories, and businesses closed; causing millions of Americans to become jobless. A world-wide business slump made this depression the worst and longest period of high unemployment. Many farmers were severely affected. The depression caused prices for farm products to drop. Between 1929 and 1933 prices fell about 50%. The reason behind this was because farmers produces extra crops, and high tariffs made exported goods almost unprofitable. The Great Depression did not end in end in the United States until 1942. The [|New Deal programs]may have increased the confidence of many Americans in their government, and led to a better econ omy.

//**__The Dust Bowl__**//
[|The Dust Bowl] resulted in overproduction and overgrazing had stripped the Great Plains of it's topsoil. A severe drought (as the result of damaged crops), reduced the soil to a fine powder. The on top of that, violent winds lifted the soil to create dust storms. Many crops were destroyed, and livestock died of starvation. Particularly,Oklahoma, Texas panhandles,and parts of Kansas, and Colorado were affected. Many families headed West especially to California, in hope of finding work.

[[image:gpricers/120px-Dust-storm-Texas-1935.png width="229" height="205" align="left" caption="http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Dust-storm-Texas-1935.png"]] **__The Grasshopper Plague__**
In the 20th century some of the worst grasshopper falls occured in 1931, 1934, 1936, and in 1939. The worst of these was in 1936, when grasshoppers destroyed crops and peoples homes. It occured throughout the Midwest and South and especially on the Great Plains. The grasshopppers ate anything they could find including clothes, and peoples shoes! Since then, new insecticides have helped keep grasshoppers in check.

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**__// Holocaust //__**
[|The Holocaust]was the gruesome killing of over 6 million Jews. The Nazi's persecution of many Jews began in 1933, (when Hitler was appointed chancellor in Germany. Hitler took power in January of 1933. In the time period between 1933 and 1939, the Nazi's attempted to take over the Jews, and confiscate all their belongings. Some laws that the Nazi's placed were the: Nuremburg laws, which disabled Jews of their citizenship. The Nazi's first planned on destructing all the synagogues and Jewish businesses throughout Germany. Hitler conquered western Europe by the summer of 1940. Many invasions of the Poland in 1939 and in 1941 put most of the Jews under Nazi control. Millions of Poland and Jews struggled to survive disease and starvation. Over 500,000 Jews and Roma were killed in "large-scaled massacres". Many victims were shot after being forced to dig their own graves and many others were gassed in mobile vans. In mid-1940's [|Hitler]'s plan to exterminate all Jews in what was known as the "Final Solution", came true ;(which took place in Wannsee, Germany). Nazi's came up with a plan to round up and deport Jews from Europe to concentration camps in the East. More than 3 million Jews were exterminated in these camps beteeen 1942 and 1944. While more than 1 million died in the gassing process. Jews who were put into slave labor were often starved. In 1944, FDR created a War Refugee Board, which was responsible for saving more than 200,000 Jews.

__//**Citations**//__
Werlock, Abby H. P. "Great Depression." //The Facts On File Companion to the American Short Story//, Second Edition. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2009. //Bloom's Literary Reference Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE54&SID=5&iPin= CASS395&SingleRecord=True (accessed January 6, 2012 ).

Quinn, Edward. "Dust Bowl." //History in Literature//. New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2004. //Bloom's Literary Reference Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE54&SID=5&iPin= HIL058&SingleRecord=True (accessed January 9, 2012).

Whitcomb, Julie. "Holocaust." In Jeffries, John W., and Gary B. Nash, eds. //Encyclopedia of American History: The Great Depression and World War II, 1929 to 1945//, Revised Edition (Volume VIII). New York: Facts On File, Inc., 2010. //American History Online//. Facts On File, Inc. http://www.fofweb.com/activelink2.asp?ItemID=WE52&iPin=EAHVIII136&SingleRecord=True (accessed February 3, 2012).