Cordell Hull, a well known internationalist and observer of the turmoil he saw in the 1930's, blamed the US Great Depression, its affects on the world's economic instability, the rise of fascism in Germany as the collection of causes that brought on World War Two. Except for the US, the world's great powers came out of the war far worse then before it.Hull cited protective tariffs unfair economic competition, restricted access to raw materials and autarkic government policies as factors that led to the critical mass resulting in global war.
Dust Bowl
See: Asia Times (March 30, 2002); Japan's Bank Crisis, by Richard Hanson.
It was a period of financial difficulty caused by the 1929 Wall Street Crash that led to a global depression. Britain had an economic decline
I'm not sure I'd classify 1920s-1930s foreign policy as "conservative internationalist." Post-WW1 strategy was more in line with liberal internationalism, which called for greater emphasis on diplomacy and international institutions such as the failed League of Nations. Really, during most of the 20s and 30s the United States attempted to stay out of world affairs. It was only after WWII that the U.S. took a conservative internationalist approach, first under Truman, then later under Reagan, both of whom made great strides to eliminate the threat of Communism.
High unemployment. (It was the 1930s).Antisemitism.
Dust Bowl
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starvation and political unrest
An increase in violent crimes.
The major environmental crisis of the 1930's was known as The Dust Bowl, or as the Dirty Thirties.
to help ease the economic crisis
The major environmental crisis of the 1930s in the US was the Dust Bowl, an extended drought in the US southwest that resulted in substantial wind erosion of farm land and in severe dust storms, some of which reached as far as the US east coast.
Stock Market crashBank Failures
See: Asia Times (March 30, 2002); Japan's Bank Crisis, by Richard Hanson.
President Hoover used the term "depression" instead of crisis or panic to describe the economic downturn during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
Migrating to California.
It was a period of financial difficulty caused by the 1929 Wall Street Crash that led to a global depression. Britain had an economic decline