Thank Goodness for Democracy in the United States

I think the structure and the instability of the Weimar government was very important for the development of the Nazi party. The situation in Germany after the war is very similar to the United States during the Great Depression. In the 1920s, credit was introduced to the American population, and people began to use credit for purchases instead of money that they actually had in their bank account. In 1929, the great stock market crash left thousands of people without money and no means for an income as large companies went bankrupt. The United States government had completely supported the use of credit in stores and hadn't done anything to stop people from investing all of their money and even money that they didn't have into the stock market. This is similar to the central government in Germany misleading the German population into thinking that they had won the war. The difference in the outcomes of these two devastations is that the United States had a stable government that could handle the economic downfall, while Germany was establishing a new democratic government in place of the monarchy that ruled during World War I. Because the United States had been practicing democratic government already for over one hundred years with presidential elections every four years and daily legislative procedures, there was no room in the United States for people angry with the government to try to come up with their own solution and to fix the economic problem themselves. Although President Roosevelt was given a lot of power in his first 100 days by Congress, because of the checks and balances that existed within the American political system, Roosevelt was not able to gain the kind of power Hitler gained over Germany. The Weimar government was not stable enough to respond quickly to the problems Germany faced, and the American government was stable enough to respond quickly to their problems, so the Weimar government faced Hitler and his political revolution as the United States was led by Roosevelt and his political revolution.
Emily I.