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Chapter Twenty-Five: The Great Depression Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation, 4/e
Transcript of HIST 121 Chapter 25
Chapter Twenty-Five:
The Great Depression
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The Coming of the Depression Soaring Stock Market
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The Coming of the Depression The Great Crash
“Black Tuesday”
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The Coming of the Depression Causes of the Depression
Poor Economic Diversification Uneven Distribution of Wealth International Debt Structure
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The Coming of the Depression Progress of the Depression
Banking Crisis Plunging GNP
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The Unemployed, 1930
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The American People in Hard Times Unemployment and Relief
“Dust Bowl”
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The American People in Hard Times African Americans and the Depression
Soaring Black Unemployment “Scottsboro Boys”
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The American People in Hard Times Hispanics and Asians in Depression America
Hispanic Resistance Asians Marginalized
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The American People in Hard Times Women and Families
in the Great Depression Growing Female
Employment
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Women in the Paid Workforce, 1900-1940
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The American People in Hard Times Women and Families in the Great
Depression Growing Female Employment Declining Marriage and Birth Rates
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Farm Family in Indiana (Microsoft Encarta)
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The Depression and American Culture Depression Values
Prevailing Values Reinforced Dale Carnegie
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“You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.”
- Dale Carnegie
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The Depression and American Culture Artists and Intellectuals in the Great
Depression
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The Depression and American Culture Radio
Radio’s Mass Popularity Escapist Programming
Depression Era Radio (Library of Congress)
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The Depression and American Culture The Movies
Hollywood’s Self-Censorship Frank Capra Walt Disney
Man in front of movie theater, Waco, Texas (Library of Congress)
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The Depression and American Culture Popular Literature and Journalism
John Dos Passos
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"Individuality is freedom lived.“
- John Dos Passos
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The Depression and American Culture The Popular Front and the Left
Abraham Lincoln Brigade
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“Communism is twentieth century Americanism.”
- Earl Browder
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The Depression and American Culture The Popular Front and the Left
Abraham Lincoln Brigade Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union Let Us Now Praise Famous Men
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The Depression and American Culture The Popular Front and the Left
Abraham Lincoln Brigade Southern Tenant Farmer’s Union Let Us Now Praise Famous Men The Grapes of Wrath
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“I'll be all around in the dark. I'll be everywhere, wherever you can look.”
- Tom Joad
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The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover The Hoover Program
Failure of Voluntary
Cooperation
Herbert Hoover (Library of Congress)
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The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover The Hoover Program
Failure of Voluntary Cooperation Agricultural Marketing Act International Economic Collapse Failure of the RFC
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The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover Popular Protest
Farmer’s Holiday Association
Hooverville. Portland, Oregon (Library of Congress)
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The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover Popular Protest
Farmer’s Holiday Association Demise of the “Bonus Army”
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The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover The Election of 1932
Franklin Delano Roosevelt
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The Election of 1932
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The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover The Election of 1932
Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR Elected
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The Changing of the Guard, New Yorker
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The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover The “Interregnum”
Banking Collapse
Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Library of Congress)
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Debating the Past:
Causes of the Great Depression
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America in the World:
The Global Depression
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