OVERVIEW
In the years after the Great War, or World War I, people around the world began to question and debate established traditions. As well as the scientists and scholars conjured new theories and explanations that changed how humans saw the world. In 1929, the U.S. stock market crash caused major havoc both domestically, and globally that created a sense of trouble throughout everyone. The majority of the industrialized world was forced into the life of depression while the Soviet Union began fueling a state-sponsored program aimed to create rapid industrialization. Within five years, after causing widespread suffering and countless deaths, the Soviet Union had transformed itself into a major industrial and military power. The Great Depression imposed major trouble in Germany as it led the way for the creation of the Nazi state, which was based on the principal of racial inequality. The Nazis persecuted many people, but none more than the Jews, who were their main targets. Reform was also very visible in Asia, especially in the countries of India and China. In both countries there were mass nationalist movements intended to free them from imperial control. In India and China this process included extreme violence and many setbacks for both sides.
Overview: Laurence Fairchild