... relief agencies, re-organisation of the economy and government intervention in society. Both leaders faced political opposition in seeking their solutions yet they dealt with this opposition in extremely different ways. One leadership became renowned for its greatness, the other disgraced for its brutality. Before the Stock Market Crash of 1929, both Germany and America were extremely different countries. The ... American nation was one where economic individualism flourished, prosperity seemed endless and where confidence for the future abounded. The government had a policy of non-inter...

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... moved from agricultural jobs into jobs in factories and offices. Japan was hard hit by the world depression that began in 1929. The farmers who had grown the silk that was exported to the United States found no market for their product once the roaring twenties and the craze for silk stockings collapsed with the stock market crash. "The Japanese silk industry, ... an export staple, was already suffering from the advent of artificial silk-like fibers produced by Western chemical giants. Now luxury purchases collapsed, leading to severe unemployment and, again, a crucial political crisis ....

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... . The governments were more often in a state of disarray than not, the populace was disillusioned and scared, and the Great Wall Street stock market crash of 1923 saw the economy crumble before the population's eyes. These unfavourable factors combined to create a nation of precarious stature, a country which was looking for a savior. This came in ... weakness of the Weimar Republic turned many people to Hitler's ways, due to this worrying expression of faulty politics. Finally, to the advantage of the Nazi Party, during the Great Depression extremism was on a rise. Extremist parties wh...

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... until economic conditions worsened to propel his Nazi agenda. In 1929 Hitler finally got his chance, the American stock market crash of 1929 affected nearly every nation in the world and German prosperity soon came to an end as a result of the Great Depression, vast unemployment and hunger that followed. President Hindenburg's Weimar Republic soon found itself obligated to repay debts owed to countries ... that once provided assistance during times of prosperity. Discontented German people wanted change and Bruening (Chancellor) believed that a stable parliament majority for his party co...

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