Essays on Great Depression

After WWI, Europe was dog-tired and obliterated to an unprecedented scale. Cameron (2014), editor at the Heinrich Böll Stiftung, describes the aftermath of the war, “It is tragic to consider all of the lost potential, all of the writers, artists, teachers, inventors and leaders that were killed in ‘the war to end all wars.’” The...

World War one, the war to end all wars, was a devastating event followed quickly by economic growth and prosperity. This period was known as the roaring 20’s, it involved the immense buying and selling of american products to consumers across the world. However, this was only the calm before the storm, for what now...