Hoover's response to the Great Depression was the Smoot-Hawley tariff which rose tariffs on over 20,000 products. This measure led to retaliation from foreign countries especially from Europe and they rose their own tariffs on their American imports, the American economy was hit back and it explains why Hoover's policy failed.
Hoover was nicknamed "Do nothing" by the Democrats, they blamed him for sticking to Laissez faire economics, but this accusation was wrong as he pushed for more state intervention which eventually failed.
There are several ways in which the Chinese government reacted to demands for democratic reform, but most of them were violent suppressions of protests.
During the colonial period of Arabs living in Kenya much economic, socio-cultural and political influences occurred. Islam was introduced to the region; commercial trade between the regions increased enormously (both export and import); the modest living of the Arabs developed a sensibility to trade in the early colonialist period forming more capital for investment; there was a relative amount of hostility due to the apolitical nature of the Yemeni Arabs in becoming involved with the Kenyan Politics; the intermarriage of Arabs and Kenyans resulted in the formation
Because of the revolt against Spain, the US at first stayed out of it but eventually they put lots of investments into Cuba, primarily in Sugar.
