On January 1, 1942, two major events occurred in the United States on this day, the first was that China, the United States, Britain and the Soviet Union signed the "United Nations Declaration" in Washington, and used the word "United Nations" for the first time.

Another matter is related to the livelihood of the people in the United States, the White House signed a new decree to ban the sale of new cars in order to save steel.

This decree has no effect on automobile manufacturers, who have received a large number of orders from the US government to produce military jeeps, military trucks, armored vehicles and tanks for the government, all production lines are fully open, and auto workers are also working overtime.

However, for ordinary people, the impact is really big enough.

As we all know, the United States is a country on wheels, and for Americans, you can buy a good new Ford or Buick car for $300. Nowadays, if new cars cannot be sold, everyone can only buy used cars.

And this decree also led to a boom in the used car industry in the United States. In the future of American car culture, buying second-hand cars is the mainstream, young people in the United States, the first car is basically a second-hand car, only the kind of successful people who have a successful career, will consider buying a new car, ordinary people buy a car, the first consideration is to buy a second-hand car, this car culture also originated from the decree promulgated in 1942. Imagine that there are no new cars to buy for several years in a row, and the entire second-hand car industry chain will inevitably be greatly developed, merchants will only sell second-hand cars, and people will gradually get used to buying second-hand cars. Once a perfect industrial chain is formed and the people have developed habits, it is difficult for the industry to decline.

A few hours after the formation of the World Anti-*** Alliance, the Japanese army captured Manila in the Philippines, which was another bad news for the Americans, and the stock market fell sharply again.

January 3 and January 4 are Saturdays and Sundays, the stock market is closed, and on the day of the opening of the market on January 5, the Soviet troops surrounded in Moscow finally began to launch a counteroffensive against Germany, the news reached Wall Street, the stock market finally stopped falling, and some optimistic investors even believed that the turning point of the stock market had finally come, and the stock market would pick up in the next period of time.

However, the news of Japan's declaration of war on the Netherlands and its attack on the Dutch East Indies caused the Dow Jones index to plummet, followed by the Japanese occupation of Kuala Lumpur, the occupation of Malacca, the invasion of Burma, and the occupation of Singapore.

The Japanese occupation of Southeast Asia, then India in South Asia became important, at this time the Allies of course hoped that India could join the ranks of the war against Japan, but the Indian "Mahatma" was obviously more concerned about India's independence, Gandhi continued to insist on his "non-cooperation", and the leader of the Congress Party Nehru was not willing to give up the political struggle with the British.

At this time, India was a contradiction, because it was not yet independent, India, as a British colony, naturally had to stand on the side of the Allied Powers, so the Indian governor at that time recruited many Indians to join the ranks of the Indian garrison to defend India.

At the same time, India's largest Congress party was pursuing India's independence, and Gandhi and Nehru, the leader of the Congress party, were engaged in a political struggle with the British colonialists, and the way of struggle was still "non-cooperation", like a child, if you don't buy me candy to eat, I will sit on the ground and cry. So Gandhi and the Congress Party at that time refused to allow India to join the anti-*** alliance. To some extent, Gandhi and the Congress Party even hoped that Japan could drive out the British so that India could become independent. Gandhi also intended to launch a fourth "non-violent non-cooperation movement" at a time when Britain was at its weakest to deal a greater blow to Britain in order to seek India's independence.

Britain apparently could not tolerate Gandhi's procrastination, so Gandhi and many other prominent members of the Congress Party were arrested and thrown into prison until 1944.

After the Japanese army conquered Southeast Asia, Thailand also declared war on the United States and Britain, and on the same day, the first American troops arrived in Europe and landed in Ireland. Of course, there was no place for the US military except for the British Isles, and at this time the entire Western European continent was in the hands of the Germans.

However, because Japan launched an attack on Burma and cut off the lifeline of the Yunnan-Burma Highway, Chongqing had to set up a Chinese expeditionary force to enter Burma to fight against Japan.

At this time, the entire western Pacific had become the territory of the Japanese army, and the US military could only retreat to Hawaii, and even if they stayed in Hawaii, it was not very peaceful, and Japanese fighter planes would often visit the skies over Hawaii and engage in several skirmishes with the US Air Force.

In this case, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, which included the deportation of Japanese nationals in the United States, the detention of Japanese Americans, and the confiscation of their property.

From the time of Emperor Meiji to the time of Emperor Taisho, about 200,000 Japanese immigrants to the Hawaiian Islands to grow sugar cane, of which 180,000 eventually went to the continental United States, most of them settled on the west coast of the United States and worked in agriculture in California. This phenomenon continued until 1924, when the United States banned half-step immigration, and Japanese immigration to the United States was effectively stopped.

After the outbreak of Pearl Harbor, these Japanese immigrants, or their remaining "second and third generations" in the United States, obviously became a factor of unease in the United States. The United States suspects that there are Japanese spies among these Japanese immigrants or Japanese-Americans, and that they remain on the West Coast of the United States in order to prepare for Japan's attack on the West Coast of the United States.

Anti-Japanese sentiment has intensified in the United States, and both Japanese immigrants and those Japanese-Americans born in the United States have become undesirable. At this time, the outbreak of the Niihau Island incident accelerated the hostility of Americans to the Japanese residents.

A Japanese pilot's plane was shot down and crashed on the Hawaiian island of Niihau, where he was subsequently arrested by the inhabitants of Niihau, but the Japanese residents of Niihau, who were of Japanese descent, rescued the Japanese pilot and attacked the American residents of Niihau.

In fact, the Japanese-American resident who rescued the Japanese pilot was born in Hawaii, and he had American citizenship according to the law, and was an American, so in the eyes of the Americans, his behavior was that the Japanese-Americans rescued the enemy and attacked their own compatriots at the same time. This kind of "beautiful rape" behavior is simply tolerable and intolerable.

Therefore, the Americans felt that those Japanese residents could not be trusted, and if one day Japan really attacked the United States, these Japanese residents would definitely not protect the United States, but would attack the Americans on the side of the Japanese invaders.

Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, although this order met with some opposition when it was discussed in the U.S. House of Representatives, after all, this order was not only aimed at Japanese immigrants, but also those Japanese Americans born in the United States, but under the rising anti-Japanese sentiment in the United States at that time, Executive Order 9066 still passed the approval of Congress.

Subsequently, the United States established many concentration camps in the interior, some even in desert areas, and they sent all the 120,000 residents of Japanese descent living on the west coast of the United States to concentration camps and confiscated their property, of which more than 80,000 were "second or third generation" born in the United States, who had American citizenship and never left the United States in their lives.

In fact, as early as 1936, Roosevelt had already ordered naval intelligence to monitor those Japanese communities in the United States, and Roosevelt had long been wary of the Japanese, arresting and imprisoning Japanese residents, not on Roosevelt's temporary initiative, but something he had been planning for a long time.

Many people just know that during World War II, Germany established concentration camps to hold Jews, the Japanese also established concentration camps to hold Chinese, and later in World War II, the Allies also built concentration camps to hold German and Japanese prisoners. But few people know that the United States has also established concentration camps on its own soil. It's just that the concentration camps established by the Allies in Europe were to imprison the enemy, while the concentration camps established by the United States on the mainland were to imprison their own nationals.

Under Executive Order 9066, as long as you have one-sixteenth Japanese ancestry, which means that your great-grandparents are Japanese, you will be imprisoned in concentration camps, including infants and orphans. A colonel in the U.S. Army at the time, Carl Benderson, was also imprisoned in a concentration camp for this reason, and he later became the undersecretary of the U.S. Army. In order to prove that he has nothing to do with Japan, this vice minister will also become the most staunch anti-Japanese faction in the United States in the future.

The Germans and Italians living in the United States did not have good fruit to eat, and after the US military declared its entry into the war, about 5,000 Germans and 3,000 Italians were arrested and their property confiscated.

In later generations, many wealthy people in China tried all means to desperately transfer their property to the United States, even at the expense of using illegal means. And many so-called public intellectuals are also propagating everywhere, saying that private property in the United States is sacrosanct and so on, and there are really a bunch of fools who believe it.

Looking at these things that the United States did during World War II, it should be understood that in the face of national interests, what "sanctity of private property" is bullshit! Even if you get U.S. citizenship and become an American, even if you are a second- or third-generation American-born, the United States can still confiscate your property and put you in a concentration camp just because you are not white.

If one day, a war breaks out between China and the United States, those Chinese living in the United States may be the first to suffer.

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Chen Qiang was a little worried for more than a month, but fortunately, the CIA agents did not come to the door again, and Chen Qiang breathed a sigh of relief.

At this time, Chen Qiang also felt that his operation of making the United States a difficult fortune was a bit too careless.

Chen Qiang took advantage of the stock market crash to make a profit of 20 million US dollars, which was an astronomical amount at that time, and there were not a few rich people with assets of 20 million in the entire United States. It is definitely not an exaggeration to say that the $20 million at that time was comparable to the $2 billion in later generations.

In the future, if someone makes $2 billion by shorting stocks, then the securities regulator will definitely investigate whether this person has engaged in insider trading. What's more, this stock market crash was caused by Japan's air raid on Pearl Harbor, and Chen Qiang's fortune was a national disaster for the United States, so it would be strange if the Americans didn't investigate it!

Fortunately, Hu Shi had been propagating that Japan would launch an attack on the United States, so that Chen Qiang could justify himself for the time being. The key is that those congressmen who used to be very close to Nomura Kichizaburo also came out to block Chen Qiang at this time in order to protect themselves, they terminated the CIA investigation, and Chen Qiang could also put the $20 million in his pocket with peace of mind.

The situation was worse than expected, and Japanese bombers and cargo planes had even appeared over Australia. The most serious incident occurred on February 23, when a Japanese I-17 submarine appeared in California waters and fired 17 high-explosive artillery shells at an oil refinery in California. The ability of submarines to attack land is very limited, and these 17 high-explosive shells did not cause much damage, but for the United States, this is the first time that the American mainland has been attacked by a foreign country since the Revolutionary War.

The presence of Japanese submarines off the coast of California and the attack on the continental United States was an earth-shattering event for the United States, which meant that the West Coast was no longer safe, and there were even rumors in the market that Hawaii was about to be unsafe. Countless Americans are worried that they will wake up tomorrow to see Japanese soldiers holding plaster flags in their neighborhoods.

As a result of this event, the U.S. stock market fell to a trough. At this time, Chen Qiang also chose to close the position and took away his $20 million profit.

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Although Chen Qiang is a novice investor, he also understands that too much cash in his hand is not a good thing, and keeping money in the bank basically can't run out of inflation. If you have money, you should invest, and using money to make money is the best way to keep money from depreciating.

So Chen Qiang found the stockbroker Charlie again, and he planned to take advantage of the stock market crash to buy some American stocks.

But Chen Qiang doesn't know how to invest in stocks, and he doesn't know which stocks to buy. In the end, after pondering for a long time, Chen Qiang planned to pick up some well-known companies to buy, preferably those of the world's top 500 companies in the future, and it was impossible to buy their stocks.

However, in 1940, few of the world's top 500 companies were listed in the future.

Look at the list of the world's top 500 companies in the future, that is, one hundred and twenty or thirty American companies, Wal-Mart, which ranks first, Apple, which ranks ninth, and Amazon, Costco, HP, Boeing, etc., these well-known brands have not yet been born in 1942.

Moreover, the United States was an oligopolistic economy at that time, and many industries were monopolized by big capitalists, such as the "Seven Sisters of Oil", behind which was Rockefeller; Several big banks, behind which is Morgan. These industries are controlled by the economic oligarchy, so they do not need to go public to make money, but directly monopolize the operation. In the case of monopoly, the profits are their own, and in the case of listing, the profits must be distributed to the shareholders. For the oligarchs, taking the profits from them is like killing their entire family!

Therefore, Chen Qiang does not have many stocks to choose from, and few of the world's top 500 companies in his memory appear on the Dow Jones list. And those companies that Chen Qiang didn't know, he didn't dare to buy them, for fear that he would lose money if he bought them.

"It's so hard to have money that you can't spend it!" Chen Qiang sighed helplessly, and then left the securities company.

Chen Qiang had just returned to his office, and before his ass was hot, the phone rang.

Chen Qiang picked up the telephone receiver, and Little Beckland's voice rang inside.

I only heard little Beckland say impatiently: "There is a batch of hula hoops on the market, but they are not produced by our company!" Our products have been counterfeited by others! ”

Chen Qiang was slightly surprised, and then immediately realized that the hula hoop was finally copied by others.

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