How The Great Depression Helped Drive The World Towards Fascism | Impossible Peace | Timeline 

My great grandmother survived this period, a widow with 3 little kids, sewing and embroidering dresses for those who could afford it. She eventually opened her own little shop and got to send her kids to university. Then my grandfather (the eldest) had to join the army during WW2 and survived that too. The stories they told... Strong woman. Strong man. Tough genes.😆

The one thing this video teaches me is, we are always only one generation away from total economic collapse, because of the stupidity, shortsightedness or greed of those in power at the time. It's never about the long term goal of what's best for everyone one hundred years down the road, only the short term of their lifetime to keep them in political power at most.

I used to think everybody went broke during the Great Depression and other major crashes but they didn’t… Some made millions, I also thought everybody went out of business during these times but they didn’t, some went into business, there's always depression/recession for some people and there's always a good time for others, it's all about perspective.

People dont realize there was a push for fascism around a lot of the world, including the United States, Britain, and other parts of Europe. Though most governments of the nations did not support it, there were members of parliament/congress who did.

Look up “impossible peace” for all the episodes in proper order. The series comes as a playlist and covers the interwar period (1919-1939)

If you don't learn from your past history you're damned to keep repeating it.

My grandparents lived during the Great Depression, my grandpa always figured out ways to make money stretch. Even today I like leftovers, and my mom tries not to waste food, with v-19 I've learned how to make recipes, and t r y new desserts, and saving back alot for 'next time'.

It’s amazing how much this documentary describes exactly what is going on in the world right now!

I studied history in college, having been turned on to the subject in high school as well as through politics during thar same period. My parents were brought up during the 1920s and 30s and had keen memories of that period. I found that the interior period to be most fascinating, as it was the incubator to the turmoil lasting into the present day. This documentary is a great review of what all happened and why. This is the kind of history that must be shown in schools today, although, sadly enough, today's students have been denied the prerequisite knowledge to understanding it.

They say..history repeat itself.. So scary.

My Grandmother and Mother experienced this time in history. Had lifetime impact on both of them. 💜💜

God I love watching these. I've been watching this series and Frontline Docs while doing boring paperwork during the slow parts of my shift

I was lucky enough who had Grandparents who lived through the Great Depression . I have always thought that they have been left out of the story and it became more about the children, my parents the " Greatest Generation". Both my Grandparents worked various jobs to keep food cloths and a roof over their families heads. Veterans of the trenches of WW1 they new the horror of war and how to carry on.

My Grandpa and his four brothers were all sent to other farmers to live as farm laborers until they were adults. My Grandpa and the oldest took city jobs when they turned 18, Two of the middle boys were willed the farm they worked on because the owner had no family. The other middle boy went to Nevada and worked building the Hoover Dam. My Great-Grandparents were able to keep their farm near Tontogany, Ohio by running it with the four girls who remained at home. Lots of families ended up scattered around the US this way. My Grandpa and his siblings never complained about how it ended up for them. They all just charged forward with their lives. One brother was killed in WW2 and the other four all lived into their late 80's or 90's as happy people.

Now, I can't believe they're doing a sequel!

So refreshing to see a doc that shows what happened in the world not just the USA

Unintended consequences can be disastrous.

It's all coming back like a bad dream. You can feel it in the air...

"voluntarily under duress" is my new favourite scapegoating technique

My dad would have been 102, my mom would be 93 and I am 58. My dad was 44 and I was 1when I was adopted. When I was very young I wanted to take my after dinner oreos( 2) outside with me so I could hurry up and get to my friends. My dad told that it wasn't nice to eat in front of other because, "you don't know the last time they ate.Bring enough to share or eat your cookies inside." He told me it was a real treat when the family had bacon grease sandwiches. My mom told me her and her sister would chew fresh tar because it tasted like black licorice.She said didn't have all the bad stuff in it back then.

My great grandma logan was born into the depression she was born in 1921 and died two years ago at 98. I always loved hearing hear stories about it and I’d depended on what her dad Hunted or fished if they ate. She was a very strong god fearing woman to have grown up during that bad time

The tax on salt was only part of the problem. The British were trying to block local production of salt, which could be picked up for free at the sea shore, and force the locals to buy salt imported from England.

The 20s of this century seems to be going the opposite of what everyone expected

My grandparents live through the Depression they had a potato Farm and they helped their neighbors. My Dad said if the Government won't help the people with higher wages better living then we are bound to have another Great Depression again. He said the people are the ones that keep America working. Not the Rich; he just passed away in 2020

There were economic signs that all was not wll with the economy here in the US before the Great Depression. Fortunate those who heeded them.

We need to make sure that this time around we turn out frustrations on the people who are really responsible for our economic woes, the billionaire elites.

The thought and inspiration of those who lost their life and made an Impact on and for their country is truly significant.

It's refreshing to watch a documentary on this subject, that endeavors to move outside the ruts traveled by its predecessors. Most enjoyable. Thank you for posting!

The root causes of the depression are not discussed. Banks extending credit, while pulling dollars from circulation is huge. All competition to the large banks were destroyed, through financial terrorism.

These historical series are amazing. I'm addicted to them

Big fan of the channel thank you for the upload.

It's no wonder they are trying to rewrite history. They don't want anyone to know where they got the playbook. So many things that happened then sound so familiar today. Will we ever learn from history? :(

History repeats itself....when our markets crash I heard it might be worse.....

Yea we have lived through a depression ourselves! Or a severe resection not sure if we reached the depression point but it was pretty bad out here jobs was no where and they knew you could get you didn’t want! Now jobs are like every where and we have a shortage of labor! Who seen that coming!

My grandma was born 1919. Her mother died during childbirth. She had a big brother that was 2 years old. Their father adopted them out to two different neighbors. They were fed housed and treated fairly and properly. The old system worked better than this new one. She lived to be a 100 years old and taught me so much. Philadelphia USA

This is the most interisting period in history, it probably decided the future of humanity for the next 100 years.

History doesn't repeat but it sure does rhyme

I just watch this and can't help to think about my grandmother. She was born in 1918 and would have been 12 when the Depression began. I see the clips of the small children and think how brave and strong she must have been to survive something so horrible.

Really enjoyed this video. I feel like my soul belongs in a different time. I feel so connected to history. I'd love to be able to go back to school and study history. But, I feel like time is not my friend, as I am getting older and find myself with less time to spare.

My grandpa and grandma grew up during the depression she said in Chicago during the summer they would do dandelion salad to try and survive and my grandpa said in Nebraska you'd be lucky to hunt a mouse or bird it was pretty rough they both never thought they went without though it was more extreme rationing especially for my grandpa because he grew up on a farm rip grandma I love you

I wonder how they will tell the stories of today 100 years from now

Good film, because chances are likely that history will repeat itself again.

This looks suprisingly familiar to what is going on today;

Times where tough but it made family’s stronger, made you realise anyone can fall to poverty even if you have everything.

Correction: At 18:57 its 1930 and $2.34 Billion Dollars,the narrator said $234 Million Dollar in 1929. US exports were dropped not raised.

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Excellent video....vry well done

The same incidents happen still, due to greed and bad policy.. In fact, we are facing it again.

Highly informative !!

So glad to find your channel! I'm a huge history nerd! Especially the early 1900s.

GREED , thats life !

20:35 These dudes really liked that particular style of hats.

Excellent with a lot of bonus, often ignored information and intersting arguements. Thank you for making this available to everyone

Probably irrelevant, but the Queen was alive then. Her parents were the Duck and Duchess of York, and they had allowed their young daughters to be filmed and photographed. She still might have memories of the interwar period.

"Hate suddenly appears out of nowhere"Sounds familiar!

Our civilisation survived the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918-20. That pandemic killed 50-100M people worldwide and was no respecter of youth. Heaps of people in the prime of life died. Entire families with children died. The Great Depression was very severe in rural America, where families were reduced to growing their own food other than a bit of flour and sugar. If the farm was mortgaged, the mortgagor often defaulted and lost his farm. What little money was earned, was reserved to pay property taxes. (State and local governments as a whole ran modest surpluses during the 1930s.) Few rural households had electric power or telephone service. The stock market crash of October 1929 was a symptom of very troubled economic conditions, and not a cause of those troubles. For starters, stock ownership was not all that common, and most American businesses were proprietorships and partnerships. In 1929, most Americans households were small farmers or shopkeepers. Trust funds for widows and orphans, and the endowments of nonprofits, were forbidden by law from owning stocks. The summer of 1930 was very hot and dry, which led to widespread crop failure and the inability to service farm mortgages. The two worst months in American stock market history, a history that begins in January 31, 1871, when only 35 stocks were traded, were the: * 34% decline in September 1931, when the Fed raised the discount rate from 4.5% to 6%, triggering 4-5 thousand bank failures, a decline in bank deposits of 30%, and a near total cessation of bank lending. During the winter of 1932-33, the ability of the American economy to survive this disaster was very much in doubt. Savings & loans survived this crisis by opting to ban withdrawals from passbook accounts. The cumulative decline from August 1931 to June 1932, was 100% (a negative value this large is possible because of continuous compounding); * 25% decline in May 1940, when the Third Reich quickly conquered France, Belgium and Luxembourg. BTW, between February 1937 and April 1942, the American stock market declined 51% even though real GDP increased 46%. The market was mistakenly pessimistic about the outcome of the imminent WW2. During the first week of May, the USA fought and more or less won the Battle of Coral Sea. A month later, the US Navy won a huge and decisive victory over Japan at the Battle of Midway, starting a market rise that lasted until yearend 1945.

Shame there weren’t enough adverts. I ended up watching the documentary in between.

What a great documentary! 👋👋👋💐🙏💐

This one is going to be bad.. glad that I am 87,

This is why all of us need to learn how to grow food still. Just because we have grocery stores doesn’t mean we need to lose are knowledge on how to grow our own food. That’s a huge reason Russia had famines they forgot how to farm and plus the communist killed all the farmers in the gulags. Read autobiography Forgive Me Natasha to see for your self what can happen to us.

Amazing

good news is this is my 3rd life, i loves it so far, i didn't tell my gaurdian i will not come back again for 1000 years it interesting at that point

Thank you. This is so well done.

Alfonso 13 was probably happy to abandon the monarchy. He was only 12 when Spain lost what was left of their empire to the United States. Our Royal Amigo seems to have been happy to be out of it....

I still think that the stupid idea of "prohibition" was ONE of the biggest mistakes the US govt EVER made. By the way, "M" is a thriller masterpiece regardless if you see it with or without sub-titles. Lorre is fantastic in it.

Thanks for upload

44:40 the Japanese shift into militarism could be an entire series on its own. I've seen a few documentaries about it and man some of those Japanese officers during the 30s did some crazy stuff

I'm just wondering if anyone knows who the narrator of this series is???? The narrator does great narration.

Russia's still paying for those T-34s...the US for the Shermans...Germany for the Tigers...Great Britain for the battle cruisers...Japan for the aircraft carriers... War debt is never really written off, except by bureaucrats. The People pay for generations to come. I read an old book about WW1 years ago. In the introduction the author stated how many X Dollars the US was still (officially) in debt for... _the Civil War_ .

Thanks!

A very importantly accurately described happening!

If only the entire populous of America and Europe could watch this short video... imagine the collective change that would come.

Looks like we're heading into a depression ourselves but at least we'll have technology to assist us.

Thanks

Its very applicable for today

Lots of small/medium businesses closed in my country, people lost jobs and can't find any.

Hang on - we are corking up for another depression that will over shadow the 1929 epic.

imagine having to watch this for school, lmao couldn't be me

Now, the great depression of 2021.

🙏 🎈 💕 🙏 It wasn't easy living during this era, however, these Americans made sure that they were accounted for when the going got tuff! Because of their efforts and example, we are who we are today, I bless their very existence now and even after, comprised in my genes. Thanks, Grandpa & Great Grand Pa! 🙏 🎈 💕 🙏

Excellent God bless you guys

Very GOOD!

that can NOT be the END?????? Oh you're KILLING me

Ask kids about the Great Depression, and they might think it's when their parents did not get them the latest cellphone. XD

Superb Documentary. Watch & Learn. Thank you.

A great lesson in here!

Thanks for this, at least I can see how things may well pan out from 2020 onwards, world politicians may like to educate themselves here .

The sense of 'community' is now gone. Federal relief was then absent, but a charitable and God-fearing homogeneous culture existed. People gave and helped one another in those days. Society is now completely different; A Great Depression today in 2021 would be thoroughly disastrous. Society would collapse.

It’s Here.❤️

Economic hardships tend to send people to radical ideas. 1920-1930 saw the great shift towards extreme political ideologies

1st world countries: Our economy is crashing and everyone is losing their jobs!!!! 3rd world countries: Oh no! Anyways...

So, basically it was the economic mess in the U.S. + Gold Standard + Greed of the French + Humiliation of the WWI.

Like your history video bro

This is very similar to what’s going on today in the United States

Depression happens when everything is overvalued and it is adjusted to meet its true value.On the grand scheme of things when GNP is lower than the debt owed like USA to Asia on Tech stocks the Bear Market starts !

Anybody else clock the comic sans font on the boy’s sign?

Grace and her family don't mind being out in the elements without walls

I like the narration.

At the 19:35 mark Margaret MacMillan says that Hoover was a great president, but his problem was he was president when the great depression hit... and a few seconds later says, 'he just didn't know what to do'.... Whaaaa ? How can you be a 'great president and NOT know what to do ??????

3:24 was that a ghost man dancing backwards ?!