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<em><u>The Great Depression and international trade are deeply linked, with the decline in the stock markets affecting consumption and production in various countries. This slowed international trade, which in turn exacerbated the depression.</u></em>
This would be known as a policy of neutrality.
After World War I, the US wanted to remain out of foreign affairs. The US managed to do this for the most part, passing different laws that helped them stay neutral as long as possible. A perfect example of this would be the three Neutrality laws passed by the US Congress in the 1930's. These stated that America would not:
1) Trade with countries involved in wars.
2) Enter waters that were considered hostile.
3) Have citizens on board ships that might be considered hostile.
This would last throughout the entire 1930's. It is not until the attacking of Pearl Harbor that the US officially enters World War II in 1941.
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War communism is the name of the economic policy of the Bolsheviks in the years between 1918 and 1921. It was a period in which the utopian aspects of Marxist ideology were fully revealed - especially the assumption that the nationalization of factories, banks and workshops would automatically bring prosperity. Despite strict state regulation, the market and trade did not disappear, they only moved underground - into the hands of so-called "speculators". In the countryside, the Bolshevik policy of requisitioning grain completely failed because the peasants hid their surpluses and rebelled against the party's arbitrariness.
