Tuesday, November 23, 2010
Podcasts
From the podcasts, one thing in particular that I hadn't really thought about before was how the economic problems in the U.S. affected the economy in Germany. It's pretty common knowledge that Germany had significant economic problems after World War 1, but I guess I never considered how a depression in America could add to this problem. In the Post-War Economic problems podcast, Evan or Rem, I don't remember which, mentioned that a major concern was that the U.S. was going to have to pull funds from the rebuilding of Germany. So, indirectly, you could even say that the Depression was somewhat of a factor in causing World War 2, as Germany was left in a greater state of despair than they would have been if the United States had been capable of helping them.
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I thought about this too, because I'd always heard that there was a worldwide Depression, but I had never considered that the US caused it, I just thought the same situation was being mirrored around the world. I wonder how signifigant the US was in Germany's economic problems?
It was interesting that U.S. was still so heavily involved in Germany after the war ended. I knew that our depression was somewhat on a global scale, but i had never thought about how we were pulling out of places; like the desperate and crumbling Germany. I am very curious as to what Kaitlyn mentioned, did our economic failure and pull-out really contribute to Germany's hate towards us?
Remember that the world prior to WWI believed world war in Europe to be improbable because each nation was economically interdependent and therefore stood nothing to gain from the war. While they were wrong about the war, they were right about the economies. Good post.
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