12: The Great Depression Pt. 2 - The Depression

History of the Second World War

Wesley Livesay

Society & Culture, Documentary, History

4.5 • 626 Ratings

🗓️ 10 June 2020

⏱️ 25 minutes

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In the early 1930s the depression would spread around the globe. Website Patreon Twitter Facebook Discord Email: historyofthesecondworldwar@outlook.com Sources China During the Great Depression: Market, State, and the World Economy, 1929-1937 by Tomoko Shiroyama Germany and the Great Depression by Dieter Petzina The Global Impact of the Great Depression: 1929-1939 by Dietmar Rothermund Japan and World Depression: Then and Now Edited By Ronald Dore and Radha Sinha The Failure of Economic Diplomacy: Britain, Germany, France and the United States 1931-36 by Patricia Clavin The Forgotten Man by Amity Shales The Great Crash of 1929 by John Kenneth Galbraith The Great Depression in Europe, 1929-1939 by Patricia Clavin The Politics of Depression in France 1923-1936 by Julian Jackson The Slump: Britain and the Great Depression by John Stevenson and Chris Cook The World in Depression 1929-1939 by Charles Kindleberger Unemployment and the Great Depression in Weimar Germany Edited By Peter D. Stachura The Gold Standard and the Great Depression by Barry Eichengreen and Peter Temin Life Expectancy during the Great Depression in Eleven European Countries by Tim A. Bruckner, Andrew Noymer, and Ralph A. Catalano The Origins and Nature of the Great Slump Revisited by Barry Eichengreen Socialism and Wages in the Recovery from the Great Depression in the United States and Germany by Peter Temin Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:07.1	This week, we're talking about the Great Depression, and it would be an important event in many
1:11.3	nations around the world during the 1930s. For some, it would cause large national economic
1:15.9	policy changes to be made, such as the abandonment of the gold standard. For others, it would
1:20.4	cause large changes in the political status quo. Each nation and its peoples would experience
1:25.3	the Depression differently, based on their national history and their national situation.
1:29.6	However, there were two important themes that would take place throughout the world.
1:33.2	The first was that the Depression unleashed a wave of poverty and struggle upon the lower
1:37.5	classes, those that had benefited least from the short economic recovery of the 1920s.
1:43.0	The second was a questioning of tradition and the best path forward.
1:46.9	This was done on both the economic and political level,
1:49.8	and was also experienced at a personal, regional, and national level.
1:53.5	A big reason for this was that the optimism that had exemplified the post-war years
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