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In The World History, The Last World War Ended In 1940S

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In the world history, the last world war ended in 1940s and United States of American became one of the biggest economy in the world. Since the world war 2, United States had their peak of economy as leader of world of economy and some call it golden age but this era ended around the beginning of 1970’s. In the history, the event recognized as The Great Inflation.
In 1963, John F Kennedy, the president of United States, assassinated and the country left with strong economy that inflation is stabled around 1.24 percent and, corporate profits were high but the weakness was unemployment was 5.7 percent. The goal of President Kennedy was get unemployment rate no more than 4 percent and the next President Johnson kept this goal as well. During …show more content…

People’s income increased demand, and high money velocity created the inflation over time and price were getting higher and higher.
When the President Johnson’s gave the office to President Nixon, the country’s economy growth rate was 4 percent and the unemployment were 3.3 percent but the inflation rate was 4.7 percent. In 1969, the country faced high rate of inflation over 5 percent and the president increased the tax but it did not bring down the inflation as expected. There were other factors influenced to the inflation such as other import products and energy crisis. Because of high inflation the foreign companies had chance to enter to the American market such as Asian cars with lower prices. The auto industry shared their market with Japanese and Germany cars. The inflation and import product cause business to reduce workers number. In 1970, unemployment rate started to increase and reached 6 percent and Vietnam War getting close to which reduced employment as well. In 1973, another big event occurred due to political reason. United Stated reduced their usage of own oil resources and kept in for the future and relied on import of oil from Arabian countries called Organization of Arab Petroleum Exporting Countries (OAPEC). At that time, Egypt and Syria were on war against the state of Israeli because to don’t want to give land to them. The supporters of Israeli were

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