Where and with what event did the Great Depression begin?

In the United States with the Wall Street crash of 1929

Why did the Great Depression become a worldwide crisis?

The world economy was interconnected through trade, loans, and investment

Mass unemployment and despair led people to support extremist leaders promising jobs and order

A system seeking total state control of public and private life under a single leader or party

Its core of extreme racism and antisemitism

Through five-year plans, forced collectivization, and brutal purges

Giving in to an aggressor's demands to avoid war

The resentment of the Treaty of Versailles, the Great Depression, Axis aggression, and appeasement

It had no army of its own and key powers were not members, so aggressors ignored it

The Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941

The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, and Japan surrendered

The systematic Nazi murder of about six million Jews and millions of others

From laws stripping Jews of rights, to ghettos, to mass murder in death camps

It has recurred across many eras (Armenia, the Holocaust, Cambodia, Rwanda) despite efforts to prevent it

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