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Decade - 1930s
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What did Japan want to do in the 1930s?
Japan invaded Manchuria. They did this because Manchuria was poorly defended and had many resources. It had living space for their surplus population and Manchuria had enough raw materials, food and other goods that would make Japan self-sufficient.
How many slaves were there on southern plantations?
About four million. There were also eight million whites in the slave states. The proportion of slaves in the populations of the slave states ranged from 13% in Maryland to 55% in Mississippi and 57% in South Carolina.
By 1860, many southern slave owners and plantation owners owned less than 100 black slaves in their farming land.
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What rights didn't Black Americans have in the 1930's?
In the 1930's black people did not have alot of rights, they could not vote, they could not sit in the same parts of resturants as white people or the bus. They had separate drinking fountains, bathrooms, they couldn't even walk into the front door of a building. Black people were second class. An incident shocked America when a black lady, Rosa Parks was on a full bus and a white man wanted to get on, after being told to get off she refused to move an inch! This was all changed when Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights movement in the 30's. He also said the famous "I Have A Dream" speech. This stopped most of the segregation in the South and black people were given more rights.
Blacks actually gained the right to vote in 1870, long before the '30s. Also, Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929. There is no way he lead the civil rights movement at 1-10 years old! The Harlem Renaissance took place around the '30s, and the civil rights movement took place from about 1955-1968.
The REAL answer lies somewhere in the middle. True, all MALE citizens of the US were granted the right to vote in the 1800s, but in reality, most Blacks were not allowed to vote given the 3/5th amendment of the Constitution (blacks were not even counted as a whole person); and South's Jim Crow Laws as well as Grandfather codes--i.e., the idea that one could vote if their grandfathers had voted. Which of course was an impossibility for Blacks who were enslaved and indentured. Those who risked exercising their "right to vote" were lynched, hanged, burned, etc. All of this is well-documented, and not a matter of conjecture. Had it been true that Blacks actually did vote earlier, as the second answer maintains, then the Civil Rights era of the 60s would have lost one of its main tenets. Also note, abolitionists took up the cause for Civil Rights long before Martin Luther King Jr, came on the scene--also well documented. However, it wasn't until the Civil Rights Act that Blacks could actually exercise their full rights as citizens to use public services and seek full redress, or expect proper representation from their government. As an end note, the Harlem Renaissance was an artistic era. In the 1930's black people did not have alot of rights.
But the thing is is that black people did HAVE rights written in the constitution its just that the south didn't treat black or just "colored people" in general like they didn't have any. So they could ride the same bus or go into the same bus as whites its just that some white people didn't like that they had different skin and they treated them like they had to listen to them and lsiten to the "law" that they made even though that black people had as many rights as white people, they just don't treat them like they do.
What causedhelped militarist leaders to gain control in japan during the 1930s?
The Japanese were always ahead of the norm. technology...they havee many things that are 10 times more advanced than the U.S. or the rest of the world. Plus they can use there advance thinking to make different powerful war materials. Better planes,better artilary, plus nukes.
- Japan didn't have nukes in World War 2 and still don't. Their ships and planes were no more advanced than any other modern military, and their infantry rifles were definitely of lower quality than British, German, American, or even Soviet small arms. And besides that, the question is how they came to power, not how well-armed they were.
What is the difference in a luger and P.08 pistol?
The luger was actually better in performance and was more acurate. Also it was given to the more higher ranked Nazi's such as the Waffen SS. And some other soldiers involved in the war. And although the P-38 was cheaper and easier to produce it did not have the amazing quality of the luger. Infact my uncle has two luger made in 1915 and 1917 and they have never jammed once.
Totalitarian rulers were able to acquire power during the 1930s?
Dictators were able to rise to power easily during the 1930s because of the recent World War and a world-wide depression. Many people were seeking economic stability, a surplus of food, a strong leader to help them, and some national pride. This is just what dictators like Hitler, Stalin, and Tojo offered.
What were women's roles in the 1930's?
The women's role revolved around the cooking, housecleaning, and mending became if anything more necessary. The traditional gender roles assumed that all women were members of families with a male breadwinner at its head, but that did not always match reality. Women who were widowed or divorced, or whose husbands had deserted them really struggled to keep their families afloat; single women had to fend for themselves, they would take in other people's laundry to make ends meet, life was tough in the 1930's.
What two developments of the 1920s are considered underlying causes of the 1930s depression?
There are actually six underlying causes that are believed to be the reason for the Great Depression. Of course people assume that it started on Black Tuesday, Oct. 29, 1929, when the stock market crashed, but here are six of the UNDERLYING causes.
-Over-production and over-expansion
-Canada's dependence on the United States
-Canada's dependence on a Few Primary Products (Staples)
-Too much buying on credit
-Too much buying on credit of stocks
-High tariffs choked off international trade
There is a simple rule of economics that industrialists seemed to have forgotten: only produce as many goods as you can sell. They became overwhelmed, i suppose. Even in the general prosperity, many families could still not afford to purchase the many goods that were being produced. The goods became an overflow that had to be stored in warehouses. Factory workers were laid off, meaning their families has even less money to spend on goods.
The United States is one of Canada's most important trading partners. When the depression hit the United States, banks closed. Industries collapsed, and people were out of work as factories closed down. No longer did Americans need to buy Canada's supplies. It was inevitable that Canada's economy suffer as well.
Canada's economy depended heavily on a few primary products, known as staples. These included wheat, fish, minerals, and pulp and paper. In the late 1920s, Canada faced competition with other wheat-exporting companies such as Argentina and Australia. With a surplus of wheat in the world marker, the price of wheat began to fall. To add to the problem, western farmers were faced with terrible droughts in the summers of 1929, 1931, and 1933-1937. Without adequate rainfall, crops failed. with little income, farmers could not afford to purchase machinery and manufactured goods from eastern Canada.
All through the 1920s, Canadians were encourage to "buy now, pay later," unaware of the consequences it would have in the future. By 1929, credit buying was a well established custom. With credit buying, many families got them self hopelessly into debt. With interest payments, items often ended up costing far more than they were worth. As the depression worsened, many people lost everything. Their refrigerators, stoves, cars, and even homes were repossessed by their creditors.
Many people thought that the stock market was an easy way to get rich quick. This was because you did not have to have a lot of money to purchase a stock. All that was needed was a small down payment. A broker would lend you the rest of the money at a high interest rate. The idea was that as soon as your stocks went up in value, you could sell them. Then you pay back your broker, and pocket the profits. The risky process was called "buying on margin." Many people did not anticipate a nosedive in the stock prices. That is until Oct. 29, 1929. For a few hours that day, the value of most stocks in Toronto and Montreal nosedived by more than 50 percent.
While trying to rebuild after WWI, many countries adopted a new policy known as protective tariffs. To protect their home industries from foreign competition, they placed high tariffs on foreign imports. Export countries countered these policies with those of their own. The trades between countries began to slow down because no one could afford the tariffs.
How did France and Britain respond to fascist aggresion during the 1930s?
Their policy was to appease Nazi Germany because they knew that they didn't have the military ability to do anything about Hitler's expansionist plans.
Which action during the 1930's heightened tension between Japan and the US?
Japan began by expanding into China during the Second Sino-Japanese War in 1937. They then invaded French Indochina (Vietnam) to embargo all products coming into China, including those from the US. In retaliation the United States embargoed oil shipments . The Philippines, an United States territory was targeted by Japan. Finally, the straw that broke the camelâ??s back was the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941.
What was life like in 1920-1930?
Life back then was very difficult. There was this war(well kind of like a war) called the Great Depression. That means life was very hard back then you couldn't buy things and their was less money back then to
"It was belief in master race" In my oppion the time wasted to kill the jews wasnt nessary in the sense that they could gain the tittle master race its very stupid and retared to think that.
What did Caroline Chisholm do to help Australia?
Caroline Chisholm did a great deal to help the underprivileged people in Australia during the early years of settlement. Chisholm moved to Australia as a young married woman, around 1830. She was shocked by the conditions experienced by women and new immigrants to Sydney who had supposedly come to Australia for a better life. Many of them had nowhere to live, so lived on the streets of the town. Initially, Caroline Chisholm took some of these women into her own home.
Begging the Governor for a building that could house new female immigrants, Chisholm was able to procure Immigration Barracks. She established it as a home for women who had come from overseas and had no jobs or relatives to care for them. While they were housed there, she also worked tirelessly to find employment for these women. Because of her efforts, she was able to close the Female Immigrants Home in 1842 because it was no longer needed.
Chisholm's next step was to return to England in order to improve the conditions of the migrants on the ships which brought them to Australia. She was unable to secure government support for migrating families, but she did manage to gain free passage to Australia for the wives and children of former convicts. Her nickname was "the emigrants' friend". Whilst in London, she established the Family Colonisation Loan Society. This society provided money needed by migrant families to travel to Australia, including chartering its own ships to transport the people. The society also organised for people in Australia to find employment for these new arrivals, whilst collecting the loan repayments once the migrants were established.
they wanted better living conditions for the people.
declaring that the depression had ended
Was appeasement the right policy in England in 1938?
The UK government had no choice but to offer appeasement in 1938 because its Armed Forces were so small there was nothing that they could do against Germany who had been preparing for war since 1933.
What was one the main goals of the Nazis in the 1930's?
Their primary goal was pretty much always to take total control of Germany. Once they did that in 1933-34, their new goal became to make sure that they stayed in power. They had other goals, like wiping out the Jews and conquering other countries, but those were just means to an end- their true goal was always to rule.
Why did people migrate to California in the 1920s and 1930s?
because of the farming and industrial options over there
How many Jewish refugees were admitted into the US during the 1930s?
Between 1933 and 1941 the U.S. accepted about 250,000 refugees from Germany and Austria and a small number fleeing the Nazis from other countries. The majority of these were Jews (as defined by the Nazis), but some of the refugees were political opponents of the Nazis and were not Jews.
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Why did American labor make great progress during the 1930s than during the prosperous 1920s?
the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 provided workers with a minimum wage and a maximum workweek of 44 hours. The Wagner Act also gave employees the right to join labor unions.
Who was the leader of the Fascists in the Spanish Revolution of the 1930s?
yo mama.....jk i actually have no frekin clue....does anyone else know?
ANSWER
Francisco Franco.
