They were forced to lay off all of their workers and close down. Unemployment was a major effect on many Americans during the depression. Unemployment affected the middle class the most. By 1933 nearly 40-50% of American’s were unemployed. The Great Depression also severely impacted the lives of farmers.
The depression of the 1890’s ruined banks, farms, and many of the train leaders were declaring bankruptcy during this time period. Prior to 1890, the Industrial Revolution was outpacing farms. The farmers of the 1890s in the south weren’t getting the price for their cotton to break even. This also happened to the farmers of the Midwest with the wheat harvest. Strikes by workers crippled some parts of the nation when the grain and livestock couldn’t reach the market place.
He believed there should be a smychka (alliance) between peasants and workers (didn’t want to create differences between them.) • Trotsky wanted to abolish the NEP- Resented the fact that much of the USSR’s industry was under the direct control of the government. Hated the NEPMEN (traders who made large profits from the NEP.) Wanted to end the inequality between poor peasants and kulaks. Wanted to abolish private farms and introduce collective farming.
The Socialist Revolutionary Party wanted to completely abolish the Tsar’s power and give the peasants power to advance Russia. They were quite radical as they had terrorist wing who were responsi9ble for a few political assassinations. Another reformist group was the Social Democrat Party. They believed the industrial workers should be given power in order to revolutionise as removes Tsar’s power over the country. The Social Democrats were split into two groups: the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks.
President’s Truman s used a tough anti –communism but impressive style to convince the American s how dangerous and powerful communism could be. Propaganda was used showing the evil of communism and what a threat it could be to the whole world. the soviets saw this as a challenge to their ideology and responded back. This led to the development of the cold war. Secondly America can be blamed for starting the cold war through its foreign policy.
His army also consisted of millions of poor, starving peasants with bad equipment, poor supplies of rifles and ammunition. In 1916, two million soldiers were killed or seriously wounded, and one third of a million taken prisoners. The Russian population was horrified. They considered the Tsar irresponsible for taking over the army and held him responsible for everything; as a result instability was growing at an alarming rate for the Tsar who had once held himself so assuredly in power. Nicholas II took this course of action to assure himself he still had complete control of Russia.
Following the Auxiliary Service Law in December 1919, which required all able-bodied Germans to work for the war effort, there was a sharp increase of social unrest as Germans felt their rights being curtailed. The winter of 1916-17 was the peak of discontent as the severe food and fuel shortages were at their worst. Civilian deaths from starvation and hypothermia increased from 121,000 in 1916 to 293,000 in 1918 and infant mortality increased by over 50% over the duration of the war. This led to huge resentment among Germans as they questioned the injustice of the loss of lives. 16% of the 1.8million who died at war were conscripted and all families were somehow impacted by the war, which consequently led to a decline in the popularity of the Royal Family.
Hard Times shadowed across the globe as the stock market dropped rapidly. During the term of presidency of Herbert Hoover in 1929, the United States became a jobless nation and left many people homeless, penniless. The economy’s confidence was lowered as numerous banks failed. Since Americans were unable to look for support amongst each other, the government and charity were the only industries they could depend on for providing food. Amidst of such a high suicidal rate the United States grew in need of a new leader that would take higher precautions on how the country should be ran in order to enable them to rise out of the Depression.
With this strategy, the Soviets attacked the Westerners for exploiting the people being addressed. With this concept, the Soviets obtained support from people within these
Moscow, for example, had been receiving 2,200 railway wagons of grain per month in 1914, but by Christmas 1916, this figure was down to around 300 wagons. There wasn’t enough food to feed the people of Russia – and to make matters worse, rationing was in place, under which each person got a mere 50g of bread per day. This resulted in the people of Russia becoming agitated and taking part in the strikes and demonstrations in Petrograd, which led to the abdication of the Tsar. Secondly, the First World War crippled the Russian economy. The country mobilized 5.3 million men in 1914, and, by Christmas 1916, 15.3 million men had experienced military service.