Social Impact Of The Depression

Question 1

Three factors it impacted

Answer 1

Poverty

Young people

Women

Question 2

What 4 things increased in poverty

Answer 2

Tuberculosis and rickets

Malnutrition in young children

Suicide rates increased

Unemployment tenants unable to pay rents and evicted so rent cities and shanty towns appears in Berlin

Question 3

What is a shanty town

Answer 3

Rough shelters built without any permissions

No access to water gas or electricity

Question 4

June 1933 unemployment rate in males 14-25

Answer 4

39%

Question 5

June 1933 unemployment rate 14-25 girls

Answer 5

25.2%

Question 6

What factors were increasing in young people

Answer 6

Involvement in crime
Lots of theft

Involvement in extreme political organisations
KPD has success in recruiting these types of people included in street battles with their opponents

Question 7

What did the hitler youth offer unemployed boys

Answer 7

Food

Uniforms

Shelter

Excitement of fighting in street battles all of which would relive insecurity and boredom of unemployment

Membership not stable

Question 8

What compulsory schemes were made to help young people during the depression

Answer 8

Day centres where the could participate in work related activities and socialise

Emergency labour schemes where they would do unskilled manual labour receiving wages below legal minimum

Question 9

What voluntary schemes made for young people to get off the streets

Answer 9

Young unemployed being sent away from cities to residential camps for six months

AIM was to get young people off the streets