The second part of the account of the events leading up to Black Tuesday, the Wall Street Crash of October 29, 1929, and its aftermath: In America, things are getting worse: wheat prices plummet and the mass migration of evicted farmers begins; the steel industry is working at 10% capacity, and there are picket lines & demonstrations (which are violently suppressed by the military). In Europe, Adolf Hitler takes power by mobilising the disaffected middle-class in Germany.