Iowa and the great depression
- WW1 caused prices on
- problems with the farmers in Iowa was that they were producing more than they could sell
- started buying and burning corn instead of coal because it is cheaper
- farmers wanted the government to stop foreclosing farms or they would kill them
- government steps in and says they would pay them to get payed less
- towns and cities where suffering to people were loosing there jobs
- people did not want gov help but really had no choice
- Iowa was directly hit by the great depression
- the farm strike they were setting up blockades to prevent goods from getting in the town thinking it would raise prices
- CCC was for younger men to work constructing most money was sent to family
France and Japan
japan
- economy shrank 8% which was the worst of any contry
- the depression hit them in 1932
- during the great depression Japan invaded Manquiria China for supplies
- pearl harbor was an ettempt to get us to trade with them again
France
- not affected till 1930
- overvalued currency
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