From the End of the Great War to the Start of World War II

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During the , people in many countries enjoyed new inventions such as motion pictures and the automobile. Life was easier. Women enjoyed more freedom and opportunity. Life in the 20s became more . Their life became more like our life today.

The good times did not last. Bank failures, the crash, and a crisis in agriculture opened a decade of difficulty, the 1930s, called the . Millions lost their jobs. Businesses went bankrupt.

Countries responded differently to the Great Depression. In the United States, President created a series of government programs called the . These programs tried to put people back to work, help the banks, and calm people's worries without weakening democracy.

The Soviet Union's leader, , followed a different path for his new country. Stalin had a strong belief () in . As a result, he used the power of the government to create gigantic new steel mills and railroad factories to create jobs for workers. He forced peasant farmers to feed the factory workers. His policy of making peasants live on resulted in hunger and millions of deaths.

Like the Communists in the Soviet Union, German had both a strong ideology and a strong leader. Under the new leader, , the German government tried to put people back to work. As a result of the Nazi ideology, the German government put Germans back to work, but took away the rights (and jobs) of non-Germans, especially Jews.

Nazism was based on , the belief that the German "race" had better traits than the Jewish and other "races." Nazism grew out of , the belief that Jews are inferior. The Nazi ideology also held that Germany was badly treated after World War I. To make Germany strong again, Nazis put people to work by creating an enormous army and encouraging factory owners to prepare for war.

Because Nazis were , they were . In the late 1930s, Hitler began taking over parts of other countries, including Czechoslovakia. His aggressive actions led to general war in 1939. Countries on his side were called the . The other side was called the . War gave Hitler the chance to carry out his anti-Semitic beliefs. After removing Jews' rights and jobs, he removed them from Germany, forced them to live in , and murdered millions of them in .