Economies of World War II - Economic Aid During World War II, Japanese Invasion Money, Lend-Lease, Economy of Nazi Germany, Empire of Japan (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 34. Chapters: Economic aid during World War II, Japanese invasion money, Lend-Lease, Economy of Nazi Germany, Empire of Japan, Demographics of Imperial Japan, Japanese government-issued dollar in Malaya, North Borneo, Sarawak and Brunei, Japanese-German industrial co-operation before World War II, Japanese mining and energy resources, Agriculture in the Empire of Japan, Anglo-American loan, Foreign commerce and shipping of Empire of Japan, Foreign Economic Administration, Industrial production in Sh wa Japan, Japanese military yen, Bank Emisyjny w Polsce, British War Relief Society, Japanese government-issued Philippine fiat peso, Four Year Plan, Cash and carry, Operation Cedar, Netherlands Indian roepiah, Oceanian pound. Excerpt: World War I and the subsequent Treaty of Versailles with its severe reparations imposed on Germany led to a decade of economic woes, including hyperinflation in the mid 1920s. Following the Wall Street Crash of 1929, the German economy, like many other western nations, suffered the effects of the Great Depression with unemployment soaring to unprecedented heights (Official figures say 6 million, but historians now believe the true figure was around 11 million). Although Hitler did not see the economy as a top priority, he did see its importance in his consolidation of power and used it to his advantage. When he became Chancellor in 1933 new efforts were introduced to improve Germany's economy, introducing autarky - discouraging most trade with other nations and emphasizing economic self-sufficiency - and a radical extension of the Autobahn system founded in the late years of the Weimar republic. This system had also been attempted in America with little success. In Nazi Germany, however, it appears the system was more successful. By 1938 unemployment was practically extinct and Germany even lacked enoug...