Others Flashcards
Why did the depression spread so widely and so rapidly between 1929 and 1932?
Dramatic fall in GNP.
Huge 98% fall in investment.
What were the effects on:Workers, Families, Ethnic Minorities?
Mass unemployment! – 1929 1.5 million – 1933 – 12.8 million.
Volunteerism – very little support for families. Many marriages breakdown.
Ethnic Minorities – first to lose jobs. Increase in discrimination. Lynching increased.
What was the contribution of ethnic minorities to the war effort, 1941-45?
Tuskegee Airmen Navajo code talkers Japanese Americans 1943 Race Riots: Detroit Michigan Los Angeles ‘Double V Campaign’
How far did the period to 1945 bring social and cultural change to the USA?
WPA – Writers and Musicians WWII and Women Black Americans and the Fair Employment Practices Commission (FEPC) Propaganda The power of Hollywood Radio Popular music and war
To what extent did WWII affect the performance of the economy between 1941 and 1945?
Collapse of unemployment Women and the war effort Young people and the war effort Trade Union influence increasing Migration to urban and industrial centres Growth of new industries
How far was the economy transformed 1945-55?
Changing employment opportunities Government policies to encourage growth, e.g. the military-industrial complex GI Bill Suburbs and Levittown New consumer society
To what extent did the Cold War affect life within the USA?
HUAC McCarthyism Nuclear Age The Rosenberg Case Hollywood 10
To what extent American culture change after WWII?
Growing influence of television
Ethnic Minorities
Women
Teenage culture
How far did the civil rights of minorities improve in the period 1945-55?
Desegregation of the armed forces, 1948
Integration in professional sports and popular entertainment
Growth of the NAACP
Rosa Parks and Montgomery Bus Boycott, 1955
Congress of Racial Equality
Black People below the poverty line – ‘residual discrimination’
