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12: The Great Depression Pt. 2 - The Depression

History of the Second World War

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The Great Depression

Roosevelt felt that the conference was instead spending too much time and focus, trying to do a bunch of what he saw as short term fixes. The British leadership was very focused on protecting their own domestic recovery. There was little stomach for large-scale trade negotiations, let alone massive international economic agreements. This meant that the most important outcome of the conference was, in some ways, a break in relations between nations involved.

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