Democratic but Divided 1926-1939
UNLIKE Britain, France was not a highly industrialized country; its economy was fairly evenly divided between industry and farming. For this reason, the depression came…
World History Volume
5000 Years of History.
“On the Dole” 1918 – 1936
IN Europe as in America, the leading democratic nations — Great Britain and France — faced the problems of the great depression. In those nations,…
Roosevelt Battles the Court 1937-1939
BEGINNING his second term, Roosevelt made it plain that the New Deal would go on. He would continue to work for reforms. He said in…
The Election of 1936
As Roosevelt’s first term in office neared its end, many people in the United States — and in other countries — wondered if the New…
A Changing Nation 1934 – 1936
IN THE spring of 1933, as the New Deal roared into action, business began to get better, but it dropped again and as 1933 ended…
The New Deal 1933
WHEN Franklin Delano Roosevelt was nominated in 1932, he was fifty years old. A fifth cousin of former President Theodore Roosevelt, he came of a…
Panic in Wall Street 1929-1932
AS MILLIONS of Americans hurried to work on the morning of October 24, 1929, it seemed like the start of an ordinary day. It seemed…
The Meaning of Totalitarianism
So it happened that in many parts of the world people were living under a system of government that came to be called totalitarianism. There…
Dictatorship and Civil War 1926-1939
THE END OF World War I brought many changes of government in Europe, but in a number of countries the old aristocrats and landowners still…