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Authors

• Marziye Mansouri ¹
• Esmail Hassanzadeh ²

¹ M.A in history. Faculty of literature, Alzahra University,Iran,Tehran.

² Associated Professor of Department of History, Faculty of literature, Alzahra University,Iran,Tehran.

Abstract

 
World War II is one of the most important periods in the history of the world. The adverse effects and consequences of this war affected all countries, both warring and neutral countries, economically, socially and politically. Iran’s political arena was constantly changing during the four years of Allied presence. In the economic and social field, the situation was similarly chaotic and uncontrollable, the shortage of grains such as wheat, sugar, beans, etc .... caused unrest throughout Became the cities of Iran. Adopting useful and effective policies and programs to improve the situation at a time of crisis and war around the world could improve the situation and even get out of crises. The sugar crisis is one of the crises of this period. Sugar was used in addition to the daily consumption of people along with tea in industrial applications such as pharmaceuticals, food factories and confectioneries. Hence the policies and letters from the Iranian governmentsTo solve this crisis and reduce the effects of the war on the shortage of sugar, by adopting policies such as: monopolizing sugar, rationing the basic items needed by the people was one of the measures taken by the Iranian government to resolve the sugar crisis. The monopoly of the sugar trade shows the high consumption of this product and the amount of its export and import. Mentioning the name of sugar cane in the list of essential items for rationing, which is done in special and critical circumstances to distribute essential and important items, is a certificate in itself. Revealing the sugar crisis among governments and the importance of its consumption among the Iranian. Therefore, they tried to distribute it fairly among the people with these measures. The present article tries to analyze the programs and policies used by governments in an analytical-documentary way. Therefore, the main question of the research is what the Iranian government has to do to get out of the crisis and the shortage of sugar in this period of time. Took action? And by analyzing the data, the degree of efficiency or inefficiency of the measures should be examined. Have the measures taken been effective in improving the situation or not? The article is based on the hypothesis that these measures not only improve the situation It did not help, but it also fueled the sugar crisis.  

Keywords

• Iran
• World War II
• Sugar Crisis
• Famine
• Monopoly of basic Goods