... German, Japan, and Italy first began making territorial demands, the US and other Western Democracies appeased and ignored the dictators, wanting nothing more than to avoid war. However, it seems that Franklin D Roosevelt realized what was happening before most people, and saw the error in appeasement. This can clearly be seen through ... them in the areas they now held. This, hopefully, would have been able to be accomplished without going to war. This would have been a classic example of killing a bird with two stones; avoid war, and keep other international democracies safe. The Amer...

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... demand and had to lay off workers or reduce wages due to the depression. Car production fell by 80%. People lost their jobs and could not afford to pay debts on their property and were left homeless. These people made shantytowns in the cities called 'Hoovervilles' named after Herbert Hoover. Companies were in debt and went bankrupt due to the ... depression. The depression in America had a huge effect, mainly on farmers. Farmers found they could not sell their produce because of the unemployment and the poverty. Prices were so low that they could not even harvest their crops, whea...

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... dropped harshly, leaving financial loss and panic. The long and devastating crash had never been seen before, it had a great impact on the United States economy. Many Businesses closed including banks, putting millions of people out of work and creating distrust of the financial industry ... from the Great Depression, yet it left a real effect in two places, the American government and American society.         The New Deal focused on Roosevelt's three R's: relief, recovery and reform. He wanted to relieve people from suffering, create reforms so that the great depression will ne...

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