20th Century Philosophy1930sThe thirties was a decade of great despair around the world. All counties were up in arms about civil as well as national disputes. In order to fully comprehend the events of the thirties, an overview of major countries such as the United States, Japan, Spain and German...

The depression period started with a collapse of the New York Stock Exchange in October 1929. For the next three months, stock prices kept on falling in the United States and by 1932 the prices were just about twenty percent of their value in 1929. Besides ruining many thousands of individual invest...