Return to"normalcy"
Isolationism
Laissez-faire capitalism
Consumer goods
Automobiles
Ford Model T
Electrical appliances
Business practices
Mass production
Advertising
Loans
Rising vs. falling market
American banks call in loans
British and French war debts
German war reparations
Treaty of Versailles, 1919
$33 billion
Aside from the Euro-American banking crisis, why did the Depression spread globally?
What were some of the effects of the Great Depression on common people?
What was the role of governments dealing with the the economic downturn and problems caused by it?
Industrialized countries
Ships in Jarrow, England
Non-Western countries and colonies
Copper and nitrate in Chile
Lack of government intervention
Balanced budgets
Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Lack of government relief
Reliance on charity
Banking Act
Reserve requirements
Federal Deposit Insurance Company (FDIC)
*Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
*Works Progress Administration (WPA)
Social Security
*"Fireside chats"
Economic impact
Political impact
Increased government’s role in economy
Preserved American political system
1. What is consumer society? Why does it appear in the 1920s in America?
2. What were the causes of the Great Depression?
3. What was the New Deal and what were its effects on America?
1. What were the causes of the Great Depression? Why did it begin in America and spread worldwide?
1. How did advertisers popularize new standards of personal hygiene in the 1920s in order to sell soap and mouthwash?