How The Great Depression Caused WW2

Why was there a stock market crash in 1929? How did The Great Depression help extremist political parties like the Nazis in Germany gain power? What did President Roosevelt's New Deal in the USA do to help America recover? 0:00 – Wall Street crash recap and America’s global economic power 1:13 – US isolationism, immigration limits, and protectionism 3:58 – Cracks in 1920s America: racism, prohibition, consumer debt 5:13 – Warning signs before the crash 6:06 – Black Thursday and the collapse of Wall Street 7:05 – Why Germany is hit hardest 8:07 – Germany’s 1918 gamble and failed spring offensive 10:27 – Hitler, defeat, and the “stab in the back” myth 13:15 – Versailles, resentment, and the birth of Nazi politics 15:15 – Hitler discovers his gift for public speaking 16:17 – The Nazi Party, race ideology, and Volksgemeinschaft 19:25 – Frontgemeinschaft and the appeal to veterans 20:25 – Weimar recovery and the Nazis as a fringe party 21:43 – Wall Street crash changes everything 23:19 – US banks, business failures, and mass unemployment 24:16 – Hoover, bailouts, and the Smoot-Hawley tariff disaster 26:01 – Retaliatory tariffs and collapsing world trade 27:13 – Germany’s depression and revolutionary instability 28:15 – Hooverism, austerity, and the Dust Bowl 31:14 – Conservative elites and the crisis of Weimar democracy 33:31 – Nazi and Communist vote surges 35:17 – Hitler exploits mass disaffection 37:01 – Nazis become Germany’s largest party 37:30 – Hitler becomes chancellor and dismantles democracy 38:13 – Roosevelt enters: the counterweight to Hitler 39:21 – FDR’s Good Neighbor policy and international outlook 40:44 – Roosevelt’s background, rise, and polio 42:30 – FDR’s landslide and the first 100 days 43:46 – Fireside chats and restoring confidence 45:05 – The New Deal and alphabet agencies 46:22 – Second New Deal: electrification, welfare, unions 47:30 – Good Neighbor policy and overturning tariffs 49:41 – FDR’s court-packing mistake and expanded presidency 50:52 – America’s recovery, industry, and cultural soft power 52:33 – Europe, appeasement, and Munich 54:36 – Kristallnacht and Nazi radicalisation 55:36 – FDR sees the danger but faces isolationism 57:34 – Rearmament, air power, and America’s legal constraints 58:56 – Teaser: how Roosevelt turns America toward war