33-45 Flashcards
describe the impact of boom and bust
over 90% pop suffered malnutrition Kentucky=mother killed children than see them starve =infant mortaility was 4x higher national average tenesse river basin
1945-war prosperity returned
describe the impact of the first new deal
emergency banking relief and glass Steagall act=restored faith in banks and made stock speculation more unlikely
-alphabet agencies created jobs =between 1929 and 1949 PWA employed over 3 million and constructed 13,000 schools and 50,000 miles road
-FERA=direct fed gov releif for unemployed=but 1935 average family on relief only got £25 monthly whilst minimum wage 100
AAA=destruction 6 mil piglets while americans starving=outrage
describe the impact of the second new deal
ERAA=45 bil relief
-WPA=8 MIL EMPLOYED 20 workforce=8000 schools 1000 airports
-SSA=provided for OAP=assisted disabled people and depedant children =revoloutionary first form of welfare state
banking act 1935=went fro private banks fed gov
cut fed expenditure unepmolyed rose 7 mil to 10 mil 12 months =roosevelt recession
describe the impact of WW2
oversea orders 10,000 plane and 13,000 aircraft engines 1940 Britian ussr large scale purchases lend lease
military well paid 27 more real income farmers wages doubled new industires =usa 51 factories synthetic rubber largest manufacture =taxpayers increased 4 mil to 42 to fiance war
wartime prices rose by 28% but wages by 40%=fewer products to purchase due to rationing
boomed by far wealthiesy nation
describe the changing living standards in depression era
farmers wives feed thistle soup to children competing for food than she gave her dog and “living in huts smaller than his kennel”=depictions of povery so harrowing in Alabama didnt publish it
-cities=malnutrition TB no doctors small homes searching garbage cans or dumps food
rural areas=hundreds thosands poor farmers homeless
many hated rich=Zangara shot MAYOR BUT was probs going for FDR
rich hated new deal=1929 top 5% had 30 NI by 1938 26%
descrribe the impact of FDR on quality of life
4 mil homeowners kept home under ND home owners loan cooperation=in 1937 Roosevelt admitted “see 1//3 nation ill housed and ill nourshied
-wages got better over half plumbing and central heating=TU and 1935 National labour relations act
war=soldiers lifes improved many recieved medical care first time and gained 6 pounds training better food
describe what quality of life was like on home front
war bad=accept rations consumer goods beef cars gasoline =pleasure driving banned =queues at gas stations and many couldnt get any as it ran out 7 mile queue =riots butchers and upset horsemeat replaced beef
difficult to adjust for wartime shortages miami and NY reused to enforce blackouts as damaged tourism=german u boats bombing it sank 8 ships NY in 12 hours
more money=number families income below 2000 fell 50%=real wages rose by 50% share wealth from top 5 fell to 16.8=consumerism movies =affulent society in making
describe the impact on leisure and travel
leisure helped boost moral=millions went to movies whilst sports attendance fell during WW2 people still followed via radio=Joe Louis fight=1938=12 million BA listened on radio
FDR”best for country to keep baseball going for moral”=sig poor players due to longer work hours and conscription =watched all american girl baseball leauge aveaged 2000-3000 per game
-DEMOCRAT national convention=FDR president elected=american airlines offered to fly him “getting gov plane =more confidence =delayed storms =most planes for rich=passagners doubled between 1932 to 38 1.2 mil=
