Floridian cities are not considered city-states, because we are all united under one government-- the governor of Florida. City- states are not unoted, and each have separate rulers<span />
Germany was hit particularly hard during the American Great Depression. The reason being was that America was a major source of loans for Germany's reparations after WW1. When Hitler came to power as the Chancellor of Germany, he incited the entire country into a nationalistic rage and establishing a totalitarian single party state, with the support of the Nazi Party.
Prohibition was the prevention of manufacture and sale of alcohol