At that time, there was a popular children's song in New York: "Mellon blows the whistle, and Hoover rings the bell." Wall Street signals that America is rushing to hell! ”

(Mellonpulledthehistle, Hooangthebell, allStreetgaesignalandthecountryenttohell) With the collapse of the stock market, the U.S. economy was plunged into a devastating catastrophe, and a terrible chain reaction soon followed: frenzied runs, bank failures, factory closures, worker unemployment, poverty, organized resistance, and the brink of civil war.

Agricultural capitalists and big farmers massively destroy the "surplus"

The Milky Tooth was poured into the Mississippi River, which turned the river into a "milky way"

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The city's homeless people built rudimentary shelters out of wooden planks, old tin tarpaulin, and even brown paper, and these huts were clustered in a village known as "Hoover Village"

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The homeless man's rice bag is called the "Hoover bag"

The "Hoover car" is called a "Hoover car" because it cannot afford to buy fuel and is pulled by animal power

Even the newspapers covered by homeless people sleeping on street benches are called "Hoover blankets"

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The apple vendor on the street became one of the most recognizable symbols of the Great Depression.

Among those who were forced to earn a living by running itinerant fruit stalls were many former successful businessmen and bankers.

The stock market crash led to a four-year Great Depression that soon spread from the United States to other industrial countries.

For millions of people, life has become a struggle for food, clothing and shelter.

In order to safeguard their own interests, countries have strengthened trade protection measures and means, further exacerbating and deteriorating the state of the world economy, which may be bad news for countries that are highly dependent on international trade, but Chinese consumers have hardly stopped at the pace of life except for the temporary difficulty in buying authentic and cheap Darjeeling black tea and Blue Mountain coffee.

The Great Depression also caused serious social problems: about 2 million to 4 million secondary school students dropped out of school during the Great Depression; Many people commit suicide because they can't bear the physical and psychological pain; Public order is deteriorating day by day.

The most important of these is unemployment.

In the United States, the total number of unemployed people has reached 8.3 million, and the poor people in cities and cities in the United States are lined up for several blocks to receive relief food.

In the UK, 5 million to 7 million people are unemployed and have to wait in longer queues in the labour market.

In 1930~1933, the Great Depression caused the economic crisis that broke out in the United States, and the Great Famine and widespread malnutrition occurred throughout the United States, leading to the unnatural death of a large number of people.

The most conservative estimate is that at least 70 million people died of starvation, about 70 percent of the total U.S. population at the time.

The benevolent Chinese Democratic Empire provided 50,000 tons of flour and cooking oil to the United States, but since the United States did not repeal the Chinese Exclusion Act, China's donations could not be shipped through the Chinese trading houses in the United States, so that the Mexicans could buy these flour and cooking oil at cost prices including freight.

The most shameful thing for Americans is that these Mexicans used low-cost flour and oil-baked cakes from China to seduce young American girls from New Mexico and Texas into their arms, giving birth to many Mexican-American mestizos, which also made Hoover blamed for the Chinese Exclusion Act, but what can he do if the interest group tycoon does not nod?

People who lived through the Great Depression were transformed in their thinking.

Workers in the United States and Europe woke up from the numbness of the 20s and launched militant strikes.

Liberals were attracted by the prosperity of Red Russia and China to become peasants and workers or advocates of constitutional monarchy.

Conservatives, on the other hand, feared agrarianism and fascism, increasingly turned to isolationism and fascism.

With the support of Chinese food, the students of Sitara in Munich once again launched a march to Berlin, and the bread distributed and the imposing flag guards became the calling card of the German Democratic Workers' Party.

A few years later, about 2 million Americans were living around — more than 250,000 of them between the ages of 16 and 21.

These were called "wanderers" by the media at the time during the Great Depression

There are empty-handed tenant farmers; There are farmers who have left their hometowns for three years because of the severe drought; There are a large number of young people who have just graduated from college and cannot find a job, and there are middle-aged men with sad faces who are suddenly unemployed and have sick babies - these people are on the move every day and have no fixed place to live.

And among them are well-dressed middle-class people – dashing bank presidents or famous writers who have commented in prestigious newspapers – who now knock on doors at night to beg for food or huddle in crowds of people lining up in the city to receive bread.

This is the year since 1929 "Black Tuesday"

Since the beginning of the Great Depression, a microcosm of Americans' real lives.

The September 1932 issue of Fortune magazine estimated that there were 34 million adult men, women, and children in the United States, nearly 28 percent of the population, without any income.

And, like the others, the study does not include the 11 million rural families who are suffering in another kind of hell.

There have been many legends about finding a job over the years, some of which sound bizarre but not false at all.

There were indeed people who stayed up all night at the door of the Detroit Employment Agency.

There was indeed an Arkansas man who walked 900 miles to find a job.

An employment agency on Sixth Avenue in Manhattan hired 300 people, and 5,000 people did apply.

It is true that someone in the state of Huasheng did set fire to the woods so that they could hire him as a firefighter.

In such an era of economic depression, more than 15 million people were looking for work everywhere, but there was no work to do.

A survey conducted by Business Week confirmed that many people no longer like the United States, some have left the United States, and some are trying to leave.

In the early 30s, the number of people moving abroad exceeded the number of immigrants every year.

China has not absorbed a large number of unemployed people from Europe and the United States, although China's domestic development urgently needs a variety of professionals, but China would rather introduce some teachers to train its own students than to introduce mature talents from the United States, not to mention that China's scientific research level has been at the top of the world with the help of the 798 base.

In the face of the surging flow of Americans, China's visa officers are very strict, except for professional and technical personnel who need a lot of practice to train in medicine, petrochemical and electrical fields, other scientific researchers and engineers rarely get visas.

On the contrary, Red Russia, Japan, and Germany attracted a large number of skilled American workers and engineers to work, and almost all of them were refused.

Although China does not attract a large number of Americans to cross the ocean to pan for gold, China's major chambers of commerce have set up many local processing enterprises in the United States to help millions of skilled workers find new jobs.

Although these companies do not pay well, they can keep American workers from starvation and displacement, and improve the impression of China for many Americans.

The Chinese Exclusion Act has become a joke, and state governments are desperately trying to bring in Chinese factories, who can deny the opportunity to reduce the hundreds of thousands of crazy hungry people in their own states.

Many of China's high-polluting and low-value-added processing industries have been upgraded, and many of the enterprises that have been closed by the Ministry of Environmental Protection or the outdated production capacity that have been eliminated in China have been loaded onto cargo ships and shipped to the other side of the Pacific, avoiding the fate of being sent to the dismantling yard, after all, Chinese entrepreneurs are still very economical.

Although there are many ways out, a large number of poor Americans still have to endure the torment of the Great Depression.

The wonderful ways that poor families have come up with to save money to survive are truly remarkable.

The man's shaving blade is sharpened and reused; Roll paper cigarettes by yourself, or smoke "wings"

Brand; To save power, switch to a 25-watt bulb.

The children picked up the soda bottles and returned the money to the shop, each with two cents; Go to the bakery and line up to buy bread for the next night.

The women cut the old sheets and sewed them together on both sides, so that the worn places in the middle were moved to both sides; Change your clothes for your daughter to wear, so that she doesn't look cold in front of the neighbor's wife—in fact, the neighbor is just as tight on hand, and I'm afraid the same method is taken.

Many families keep the Christmas cards they receive and send them to other friends next year.

In the countryside, especially in the Midwest, life is extremely bleak.

As a result of the sharp drop in the price of agricultural products, a large number of farmers went bankrupt.

Millions of people have been spared death only by living like animals.

Pennsylvania countrymen eat weed-root dandelions; Kentuckyers eat violet leaves, wild shallots, forget-me-nots, wild lettuce, and wild weeds, which have always been reserved for livestock.

The mothers of the children in the city wandered around the docks and waited, and as soon as rotten fruits and vegetables were thrown out, they went up to fight the wild dogs.

The vegetables were loaded onto the truck from the docks, and they ran after them, picking up whatever they had fallen.

A cook at a hotel in the Midwest left a bucket of leftovers in the alley outside the kitchen, and a dozen or so people immediately rushed out of the darkness to grab it.

There are also families who go into the garbage dump to pick up bones and watermelon rinds to nibble on.

Because of the abundance of maggots, there is a widow in the city of Chicago who always takes off her glasses first when picking up something to eat.

While rural China is installing running water and electricity, Texas farmers are cutting off their wires and selling copper wires because they can't afford electricity.

While vaccinations are widespread in China's cities, residents of New Jersey who have been bitten by hungry dogs can't even afford rabies vaccinations.

When middle-class families in China began to popularize automobiles, many families in the United States sold their cars for bread and potatoes.

When China's colleges and universities began to implement the professor tour system, Princeton professors had to fertilize their corn fields in their spare time, otherwise their reduced salaries would not be able to afford the restraint of their families.

China's defense forces held a "Hunt 3 - Combined Exercise of All Arms" in the face of the Don Front of Red Russia in the steppes of Central Asia

Although the participants were only a task force group composed of three infantry divisions and an armored division, it was enough to deter the Red Russia, which had increased in strength, and most of the officers of the Japanese and British armies who served as observers had solemn faces, and as for Major Ike and Lieutenant Douglas of the US Army, the two confirmed the fact after a brief discussion, that is, in the face of such a squadron, The 100,000 troops and 10,000 horses of the United States may only be able to hold out for 24 hours, and then it will be up to the farmers to maintain the independence and freedom of the United States.

"Today, when the United States is extremely weak, we can only avoid provoking this powerful Eastern Empire, which is the best choice to safeguard American interests."

The British have also softened considerably on Tibet, but expectations have become more fervent for China's commitment not to support anticolonial guerrillas in Southeast Asia.

The Japanese, on the other hand, are desperately building up their combined fleet and air force, and as for the army, one or two more divisions are not at all useful, so it is enough to maintain order in the country.

In short, the United States has become bleak in the bleak wind and rain, and Japan, Germany, China, and even the hated Red Russia have come to get a piece of the pie, so that the weak United States grits its teeth with hatred but has no choice.

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