Nationalist decade

HIS 187

HIS 187
Author

Eric Rauchway

Published

October 18, 2024

The gold standard

Prices under the gold standard

Inflation during the Great War

Gold panic under inflation

A recession to cover gold

The cost of staying on gold

Nationalist response to recession

  • tariffs
    • Emergency Tariff Act, 1921
    • Fordney–McCumber Tariff, 1922
  • immigration restriction
    • Emergency Immigration Restriction (Quotas) Act, 1921
    • Johnson–Reed (National Origins) Act, 1924

A world of debt

America first

currently one state in which one can observe at least weak beginnings of a better conception. This is of course not our exemplary German Republic, but the American Union, in which an effort is being made to consider the dictates of reason to at least some extent. The American Union categorically refuses the immigration of physically unhealthy elements, and simply excludes the immigration of certain races

Adolf Hitler