Zusammenfassung der Ressource
BACKGROUND
- HOLLYWOOD
- golden age
- after great
depression gave
people hope
- valuable
- phscological role
- even with no money, 16million people
went to the cinema each week
- WALL STREET CRASH
- overproduction of goods
- rush to sell shares and
redeem depths
- interest rates low
- small banks
unable to cope
- great depression
- a lot left unemployed
- AMERICAN DREAM
- gave everyone hope
- everyone can be whatever they
want IF they work hard
- regardless of social class
or circumstances of birth,
everyone was equal
- idea by equality by
inspiration was a motto
- improved ethos of US
- WOMEN IN SOCIETY
- inferior
- no respect
- lower pay
- as result of GD money
was tight so expected
to leave jobs for men
- did unskilled jobs eg.
seamstresses and secretaries
- expected to be homeowners
as profession
- had to follow stereotypes:
beautiful well mannered mothers
- got social status from husbands
- LIFE FOR FARMERS
- drought
- unable to farm
- no money
- working conditions bad
- paid $5 a day
- not many jobs
- everyone went to california
- too may people
- NEW DEAL
- response to Great Depression
- relief for unemployed
- series of domestic programmes
- phscoligal effect
- many different acts
- many still in use today
- RACISM
- black people second class
- racial discrimination legal
- impossible to fight discrimination in the south
- PRE-1928
- 75million people
- Roosavelt president
- 1915 US in WWI
- age of confuserism
- 1920 women allowed to vote