Alan Brinkley, American History 14/e Chapter 23: The Great Depression

Highlights The Coming of the Great Depression The American People in Hard Times The Depression and American Culture The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Coming of the Great Depression The Great Crash Stock Market Boom “Black Tuesday” Wall Street (Licensed for Use) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Coming of the Great Depression Causes of the Depression Lack of Diversification Maldistribution of Wealth Declining Exports Unstable International Debt Structure © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Coming of the Great Depression Progress of the Depression Banking Collapse Severe Contraction The unemployed, 1930 (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The American People in Hard Times Unemployment and Relief Belief in Personal Responsibility “Dust Bowl” “Okies” A dust storm (CORBIS/Royalty Free) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The American People in Hard Times African Americans and the Depression African American Suffering Scottsboro Case NAACP’s Changing Role © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The American People in Hard Times Mexican Americans in Depression America Discrimination against Hispanics Asian Americans in Hard Times Japanese American Citizens League © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The American People in Hard Times Women and the Workplace in the Great Depression Popular Disapproval of Women’s Employment Increased Female Employment Depression Families Retreat from Consumerism © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The American People in Hard Times Women in the Paid Workforce, 1900-1940 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Depression and American Culture Depression Values Persistence of the “Success Ethic” Self-Blame © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Depression and American Culture Artists and Intellectuals in the Great Depression “Discovery” of Rural Poverty Depression Literature Farm family in Indiana (Microsoft Encarta) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Depression and American Culture Radio Escapist Programming Radio’s Impact Depression-era radio (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Depression and American Culture Movies in the New Era Continuing Popularity of Movies Walt Disney Popular Literature and Journalism Life Magazine © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Depression and American Culture The Popular Front and the Left Spanish Civil War Southern Tenant Farmers Union The Left’s Newfound Respectability The Grapes of Wrath © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover The Hoover Program Failure of Voluntarism Agricultural Marketing Act Hoover’s Declining Popularity Reconstruction Finance Corporation Herbert Hoover (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover Popular Protest Farmers’ Holiday Association Demise of the Bonus Army Hooverville; Portland, Oregon (Library of Congress) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover The Election of 1932 FDR Nominated 1932 Election The “Interregnum” Banking Crisis Election of 1932 © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

The Unhappy Presidency of Herbert Hoover Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Library of Congress) The Changing of the Guard, The New Yorker (FDR Library) © 2012, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.