Let me start of this post by first making it clear that while I LEARNED TO TOLERATE, BECAUSE IN ORDER TO SURVIVE IN OUR MODERN DAY WORLD ONE MUST; I had, and have, no respect for, bigotry, dictatorship-actual or attempted, fanaticism= redoubling your effort when you have forgotten your aim; with very strict standards and little tolerance for contrary ideas or opinions capitalist style greed, modern day government politics, politicians/political parties, racism(especially would be Supremacism = the worldview that a particular age, race, species, ethnic group, religion, gender, social class, belief system, or culture is superior to other variations of that trait, and advocates those who identify with it to dominate, or control, those who do not. Now that I have done so; there remain some other FACTS which I must point out.
What were the two sides in World War Two?
THE WAR WAS FOUGHT CHIEFLY BETWEEN TWO MAJOR ALLIANCES: THE AXIS AND THE ALLIES.
Below is a list of the countries that fought in the war and the side they were on.
The Axis: Germany, Italy, Japan, Slovakia (Nov. 1940), Hungary (Nov. 1940), Romania (Nov. 1940), Bulgaria (March 1941).
The Allies: Australia, Belgium, Brazil, Canada, China, Czechoslovakia, Denmark, Estonia, France, Greece, India, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, South Africa, United Kingdom, United States, USSR(of course, a Socialist Country), Yugoslavia, and others.
The German's economy, like those of many other western nations, suffered the effects of the Great Depression with unemployment soaring around the Wall Street Crash of 1929. When Hitler became Chancellor in 1933, he introduced policies aimed at improving the economy of Nazi Germany and combating hyperinflation. The changes included nationalization of key industries, autarky, and the tariffs on imports. Wages increased by 10.9% in real terms during this period. However, nationalization and a cutting off of trade DID mean rationing in key resources like poultry, fruit, and clothing for many Germans.
In 1934 Hjalmar Schacht, the Reich Minister of Economics, introduced the Mefo bills, allowing Germany to rearm without spending Reichsmarks but instead paying industry with Mefo bills (Government IOU's) which they could trade with each other. Between 1933 and 1939 the total revenue amounted to 62 billion marks, whereas expenditure (at times comprising up to 60% rearmament costs) exceeded 101 billion, thus causing a huge deficit and a national debt reaching 38 billion marks in 1939 and coinciding with Kristallnacht (November 1938) and with intensified persecutions of Jews and the outbreak of World War II.
BY 1938 UNEMPLOYMENT WAS PRACTICALLY EXTINCT. Further as so us WELL remember, GERMANY(OK, TWO COUNTRIES), CAME VERY, VERY CLOSE TO WINNING WORLD WAR II. Both were fighting Capitalism.
The greatest single news event of 1938 took place on September 29, when four statesmen met at the Führerhaus, in Munich, to redraw the map of Europe. The three visiting statesmen at that historic conference were Prime Minister Neville Chamberlain of Great Britain, Premier Edouard Daladier of France, and Dictator Benito Mussolini of Italy. But by all odds the dominating figure at Munich was the German host, Adolf Hitler.
Nazi-directed events which during late summer and early autumn threatened a world war over Czechoslovakia. WHEN WITHOUT LOSS OF BLOOD he reduced Czechoslovakia to a German puppet state, forced a drastic revision of Europe's defensive alliances, and won a free hand for himself in Eastern Europe by getting a "hands-off" promise from powerful Britain (and later France), Adolf Hitler without doubt became 1938's Man of the Year.
Most other world figures of 1938 faded in importance as the year drew to a close. Prime Minister Chamberlain's "peace with honour'' seemed more than ever to have achieved neither. An increasing number of Britons ridiculed his appease policy, believed that nothing save abject surrender could satisfy Germany’s ambitions.
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