1930s Flashcards
(24 cards)
1929-1933)-He held office during the onset of the Great Depression and was given much of the blame for its harshness
Herbert Hoover
1933-1945; died in office)-was the 32nd American president who led the United States through the Great Depression and World War II, greatly expanding the powers of the federal government through a series of programs and reforms known as the New Deal.A
Franklin D. Roosevelt
period when economic activity decreases and many people do not have jobs
depression
Black Tuesday. It started on October 24 and continued until October 29, 1929, when share prices on the New York Stock Exchange collapsed.
Stock market crash
occurs when a bank is unable to meet its obligations to its depositors or other creditors.
Bank failure
a market in which share prices are rising, encouraging buying.
bull market
when a person or business cannot repay their outstanding debts.
bankruptcy
is the failure to pay interest or principal on a loan or security when due.
default
Drought in the Midwest where farmers had to take all their stuff and leave to go to california nad leave their property.
Dust Bowl-
a town of shacks built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.
Hoovervilles
nicknamed “The Kingfish”, was an American politician who served as the 40th governor of Louisiana from 1928 to 1932 and was a member of the United States Senate from 1932 until his assassination in 1935. Wanted to distribute the wealth from the rich to the poor. FDR called him the most dangerous man in America
Huey Long
one of a series of radio broadcasts made by President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the nation, beginning in 1933.
fireside chat
The set of programs adopted under the Roosevelt administration to combat the Great Depression of the 1930s
New Deal
is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter on May 18, 1933, to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation
Tennessee Valley Authority
was an American New Deal agency, employing millions of people to carry out public works projects, including the construction of public buildings and roads.
Works Progress Administration
was a prime New Deal agency established by U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1933. The goal was to eliminate “cut-throat competition” by bringing industry, labor, and government together to create codes of “fair practices” and set prices.
National Recovery Administration
federal insurance program that provides benefits to retired people and those who are unemployed or disabled.
Social Security
helped establish the national broadcasting networks such as NBC and CBS, still present to this day. The influence of the golden age of this on the American way of life will never be forgotten. Appliance they could not live without.
Radio
took people away from their struggles for awhile. Very popular. Orchestra, news reel, movie, featured film, and cartoons
Movies
-a train for carrying goods rather than people. People would ride on them to get to places faster and it was free.
Freight Trains
1918, when the Bolsheviks became the ruling party of Russia, they changed their organization’s name to the All-Russian blank Party; it was renamed the All-Union blank Party in 1925 after the founding of the U.S.S.R. and finally to the blank Party of the Soviet Union in 1952.
Communism/Russia
lasting from 1919 to 1920, a campaign launched by the federal government to arrest communists and other radicals who promoted the overthrow of the U.S. government
Red scare
Under the leadership of Adolf Hitler (1889-1945), the National Socialist German Workers’ Party, or Nazi Party, grew into a mass movement and ruled Germany through totalitarian means from 1933 to 1945.
Nazism/Germany/Hitler
National Guard troops use tear gas on picketers in Tacoma during the 1935 timber workers blank… Depressions often break unions. As unemployment soared in the early years of the 1930s, the labor movement seemed helpless, unable to protect jobs let alone wage rates.
Unions/strikes
