In 1939, Americans celebrate working its way out the depression and drew people form all over the world with the worlds fair.
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An economic depression. The amazing thing is that the depression of the late 1800's was far worse than the depression of the 1930s and 40s. But, people seem to forget that for some reason. I think maybe it is because there was no radio and film to capture the trauma of that depression.
World War II is said to have pulled us out of the Depression because we supplied our allies with war materials, which created jobs and jump started our economy. Therefore, people believe the war helped end the Depression.
WW1 was very hard not only on the people fighting the war, but the people whose family members were in the war were also impacted for the fear of that (those) family member(s). More people were killed in that war than any other war in the world.
See: Wikipedia World War II Casualties.
Hitler began to have a significant following after 1929, with the start of the Depression.