ions led to the rise to power of the dictator Adolf Hitler. The Japanese invaded China, developing industries and mines in Manchuria. Japan claimed this economic growth would relieve the depression. This militarism of the Germans and Japanese eventually led to World War II (1939-1945).
             THE IMPOSSIBILITY OF THE AMERICAN DREAM
             Of Mice and Men is a novel of defeated hope and the confrontation of the harsh reality to the American Dream, understood as the possibility to improve one's life, no matter what your social or economical status is. George and Lennie are poor homeless migrant workers, doomed to a life of wandering around and exhausting work. Their desires may not seem so unfamiliar to any other American: a place of their own, the opportunit
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