Germany before World War II
After World War I, Germany, as a defeated country, signed the << Versailles Treaty >>, abandoned foreign colonies, cut off land and paid war reparations, in order not to let Germany recover quickly, Britain and France vigorously reduced Germany's industrial system, resulting in a large number of unemployment, because domestic resources were controlled by Britain and France, plus reparations, so that the people's livelihood was in deep trouble, prices soared, resulting in inflation. As a small nationalist party in Germany after World War I, the Nazi Party became the ruling party in only 10 years or so with the slogan of making bread for the people, and due to the obstruction of the development of the industrial system, the Nazi Party vigorously developed infrastructure, solved the employment of the people, and the economy flourished.
Japan before World War II
As a victorious country, Japan escaped a division of the world powers, the development of heavy industry technology is mature, the development of shipbuilding ranks third in the world, the connection and transportation industry is developed, the level of civilian science and technology is relatively high, the people's living standards have been greatly improved, and after the high-speed growth of GDP, there is an economic crisis, and the economic crisis of 1931 has caused the quality of life of the Japanese people to plummet, and the unemployment rate has soared.
Italy before World War II
The Italian industrial system was relatively developed before World War I, and although it experienced war, the industrial recovery was quite rapid, and until World War II, it provided Japan with ready-made weapons.
The United States before World War II
After World War I, the United States, as a member of the Allies, received a large number of reparations and colonies, but also provided loans to the defeated countries, and at the same time the United States produced a lot of surplus value, these values were disorderly breeding, resulting in economic bubbles, and by the time of World War II, the U.S. economy had reached an unprecedented glory, due to the cyclical nature of the economy, the U.S. stock market plummeted before World War II, and the economic crisis appeared, thus spreading to the world.
The outbreak of the First World War did not solve the problem of imperialist redivide of the world, but on the contrary increased the contradictions between the victorious and defeated countries, the tariff war, the dumping war, the currency war led to the continuous differentiation of the capitalist world, and various monetary and economic blocs appeared. In order to divert domestic employment and economic contradictions, in 1931 Japan launched a war to invade northeast China, in 1935 Italy annexed Ethiopia, in 1936 Japan signed an anti-communist agreement with Germany and Italy, interfered in the Spanish Civil War, in 1937 Japan launched a full-scale invasion of China, in 1938 the German Empire annexed Austria, thus opening the prelude to World War II.