Great Depression

Examples of Great Depression in the following topics:

• Argentina Before the Great Depression

• The Great Depression and the New Deal

  • The New Deal was a series of economic programs enacted in the United States between 1933 and 1936 in response to the Great Depression.
  • The Great Depression was a severe worldwide economic depression in the decade preceding World War II.
  • In the 21st century, the Great Depression is commonly used as an example of how far the world's economy can decline.
  • In many countries, the negative effects of the Great Depression lasted until the end of World War II.
  • USA annual real GDP from 1910 to 1960, with the years of the Great Depression (1929–1939) highlighted.

• Hooverville

  • Homelessness exploded during the Great Depression resulting in the massive outgrowth of shanty towns, called in that period ‘Hoovervilles'.
  • "Hooverville" was the popular name for shanty towns built by homeless people during the Great Depression.
  • They were bitingly named after Herbert Hoover, then President of the United States, because he had allegedly allowed the nation to slide into depression.
  • Homelessness was present before the Great Depression, with homeless people being a fairly common sight in the 1920s.

• Hoover and the Limits of Individualism

  • Hoover carried his "rugged individualism" into the Great Depression, believing that the government shouldn't interfere.
  • Regarding poverty, Hoover said that "given the chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon, with the help of God, be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from this nation. " He added that "we in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. " Mere months after Hoover made these statements, however, the Stock Market Crash of 1929 occurred, and the world's economy spiraled downward into the Great Depression.
  • Hoover carried his idea of "rugged individualism" into the Great Depression, insisting that the federal government should not interfere with the American people during the economic crisis.

• The Great Depression

  • The Great Depression was a decade-long period of poverty and unemployment that followed the 1929 stock market crash.
  • Although its exact causes are still debated, there were several events that inevitably caused the Great Depression.
  • The agricultural losses were especially acute in the Great Depression.
  • Yet international influences also contributed to the Great Depression.
  • Economists still dispute how much weight to give the stock market crash of October 1929 as a cause of the Great Depression.

• The New Deal

  • The New Deal was a series of economic programs enacted between 1933-1936 in response to the Great Depression.
  • The programs were a response to the Great Depression.
  • Relief was offered to the unemployed and poor; recovery was intended to bring the economy to normal levels; and system reform was hoped would prevent a repeat depression.
  • Roosevelt entered office with no specific set of plans for dealing with the Great Depression.

• The Election of 1932

  • The Great Depression and thus the economy was the dominant issue during the presidential election of 1932 between Franklin Delano Roosevelt and incumbent Herbert Hoover.
  • As the presidential election of 1932 took place in the midst of the Great Depression, the economy was unsurprisingly the dominant issue.
  • Although the Great Depression hit countries all around the world, Hoover was held largely responsible for the consequences of the crisis in the United States.
  • As Hoover's presidency was now defined by the Great Depression, his political attacks on Roosevelt did not convince the voters.
  • Once again, the Great Depression was in the center of everyone's attention.

• Cognitive Apprenticeship

  • The fourth grade at Cedars Elementary is ready to learn about the Great Depression, Franklin D.
  • Beauchamp asked the group some questions: "What was the Great Depression?"
  • Beauchamp distributed a play about life during the Great Depression, assigning roles to various students.
  • She asked questions such as : "What was it like to live during the Great Depression?
  • Reed's class is learning about the Great Depression?

• Photography during the Great Depression

  • The period from 1930-1945 in American history is marked by the Great Depression and outbreak of the second World War.
  • Social realism, also known as socio-realism, became an important art movement during the Great Depression in the 1930s.
  • The Farm Security Administration, part of the New Deal, was an effort during the Depression to combat American rural poverty.
  • From 1935-1944, the Farm Security Administration employed several photographers to document the effects of the Great Depression on the population of America.
  • Many of the most famous Depression-era photographers were fostered by the FSA project such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange, and Gordon Parks.

• The Human Toll

  • The Great Depression caused widespread homelessness and illness, fueled discrimination, and increased migrant labor.
  • The Great Depression of the 1930s brought thousands of people, and even entire regions of the country, to their knees.
  • Americans primarily migrated west looking for work, although most found economic conditions little better than the ones they had left, given the pervasiveness of the Great Depression throughout the country.
  • Farm equipment in South Dakota is left half exposed by one of the many wind storms that swept across the Great Plains during the Dust Bowl period of the Great Depression in the 1930s.
  • Describe some of the suffering the Great Depression brought upon Americans