Great Depression Worldwide
Hard Times
Who said, What said
Relief, Recovery, or Reform?
Alphabet Agencies
We Built That
A New Deal
100
In 1929, German Chancellor Gustav Stresemann warned the country's "economic position is only flourishing on the surface" that it was "dancing on" this
What is a Volcano?
100
Spontaneous shantytowns that dotted America’s cities.
What are Hoovervilles?
100
“I'm for the poor man — all poor men, black and white, they all gotta have a chance. They gotta have a home, a job, and a decent education for their children. 'Every man a king' — that's my slogan.”
Who is Huey Long
100
Double Jeopardy
Programs designed to immediately put people to work- CCC, CWA, FERA and put money in their pockets
What is Relief?
100
Put young men to work on public land- conserving, reforesting, building trails, fighting forest fires.
What is the Civilian Conservation Corps. (CCC)
100
The Works Progress Administration (WPA) hired many people, including artists to paint these graphic pieces of art on walls of lobbies in Public facilities- including federal buildings, schools, airports, hospitals, and libraries.
What are murals.
100
From January 1, 1929 to January 1, 1933, FDR tried out his programs which would become the basis of his New Deal as governor of this state.
What is New York?
200
In order to win support from the people, Hitler made appeals to people's belief in this:
What is "The Nation"?
200
During the Great Depression, unemployment stood at this high percentage of working-age people in search of work.
What is 1/4th? 25%?
200
There is thus one thing which is the first task of this Movement: it desires to make.... once more National, that his [nation] shall stand for him above everything else. It desires to teach our people to understand afresh the truth of the old saying: He who will not be a hammer must be an anvil. An anvil we are today, and that anvil will be beaten until out of the anvil we fashion once more a hammer.
Who is Adolph Hitler
200
Like the National Industrial Recovery Act (NIRA), “established codes of fair practice for individual industries … to promote industrial growth,” and sustain growth.
What is Recovery
200
In order to stabilized prices, this agency was unpopular during the Great Depression because it paid farmers during a time when people were starving, NOT to farm their land and to slaughter excess livestock
What is the Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA)
200
The CCC enlisted unemployed unmarried young men to create trails through these beautiful and pristine public lands.
What are National Parks
200
At the start of his term, FDR threw the federal government headlong into the fight against the Depression.On March 12, 1933 he made the first of many of these broadcasts to inform and reassure the public.
What are Fireside Chats?
300
Army General, Led a conservative revolt against the socialist Republican Government of Spain. Deceived the exile king Alfonso XIII. Dictator of Spain until illness and eventual death in 1974.
Who is Francisco Franco
300
The Day the Stock market bottomed out. October 29, 1929.
What is "Black Tuesday"?
300
“A guy needs somebody―to be near him. A guy goes nuts if he ain't got nobody. Don't make no difference who the guy is, long's he's with you. I tell ya, I tell ya a guy gets too lonely an' he gets sick.”
This classic piece of American Literature is set against the backdrop of Depression-era America. The economic conditions of the time victimized workers whose quest for land was thwarted by cruel and powerful forces beyond their control.
What is Of Mice and Men/ John Steinbeck?
300
Large-scale construction projects managed by the TVA and PWA which were designed to put people to work and lift industries out of the Depression and onto a more stable economic footing with steady employment and large quantities of purchases of construction material and machines.
What is recovery
300
Insurance Corporation- Ensures the money in your account is safe, even if the bank fails.
What is the FDIC- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
300
During the 1930s, construction companies had a grim rule of thumb: one worker fatality for every million dollars spent. Along with the Oakland Bay Bridge, this New Deal project started in 1934 and opened in 1937. Came in ahead of schedule and with only 11 workers killed during construction, at a cost of $30 million. Today, this suspension bridge is still considered a marvel of modern engineering.
What is the Golden Gate Bridge
300
Catholic priest and radio personality from Michigan, gained a following by making vitriolic, anti-Semitic attacks on Roosevelt for cooperating with banks and financiers and proposing a new system of “social justice” through a more state-driven economy instead.
Who was Father Charles Coughlin
400
Not a Fan of Communists, Pope Pius XI supported the ascendancy of "The man that providence has sent us" in 1929 and would not interfere with this man's rule as long as he did not interfere with the Vatican's independence.
Who is Benito Mussolini?
400
Name given to those who migrated from the drought stricken Dust Bowl region towards California. Much like the fictional Joad family in John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath.
Who are Okies?
400
We are told by the opposition that we must have a change, that we must have a new deal. It is not the change that comes from normal development of national life to which I object but the proposal to alter the whole foundations of our national life which have been builded through generations of testing and struggle, and of the principles upon which we have builded the nation. The expressions our opponents use must refer to important changes in our economic and social system and our system of government, otherwise they are nothing but vacuous words.
Who is Herbert Hoover?
400
Social Security Act
What is Relief
400
Not to confuse it with that gun-loving group, this "Blue-Eagle" administration was responsible for setting industry standards between business and government to establish “codes” that would coordinate prices, regulate production levels, and establish conditions of employment.
What is the National Recovery Administraton (NRA)
400
Though it came later, the U.S. government used the know-how accumulated during the New Deal era to organize industrial and labor resources for this large-scale military scientific project named after a NYC boro.
What is the Manhattan Project/ Atomic Bomb?
400
Passed during the Second New Deal, It provided for old-age pensions, unemployment insurance, and economic aid, based on means, to assist both the elderly and dependent children. It is paid for thru a tax on your paycheck.
What is the Social Security Act.
500
Double Jeopardy
In his pursuit to industrialize the U.S.S.R., Stalin confiscated grain from this Black Sea Nation, leading to the Holodomor, or Death by Hunger.
What is Ukraine?
500
General Douglas MacArthur and hero of WWII had the notorious distinction of forcing the vacation this group of WWI veterans from Washington D.C. in the Summer of 1932. Storming the tent city, killing two adults and an infant.
What is the Bonus Army?
500
March 4, 1933! I shall never forget the inaugural address, which seemed to re-echo the very words employed by Christ Himself as he actually drove the moneychangers from the temple.
The thrill that was mine was yours. Through dim clouds of the depression, this man Roosevelt was, as it were, a new savior of his people!....
Such were our hopes in the springtime of 1933. . . .
It is not pleasant for me who coined the phrase “Roosevelt or ruin” – a phrase fashioned upon promises – to voice such passionate words. But I am constrained to admit that “Roosevelt and ruin” is the order of the day, because the moneychangers have not been driven from the temple.
My friends, I come before you tonight not to ask you to return to....to the Hoovers, to the Old Deal exploiters who honestly defended the dishonest system of gold standardism and rugged individualism.
Who is Father Coughlin?
500
The Glass-Steagall Act created the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and required banks separate commercial banking from investment banking
What is Reform
500
The Supreme Court ruled during this case in 1935 the National Industrial Recovery Act was unconstitutional and congress had given too much power over to the president and the executive branch
What is Schechter v. U.S./ Schechter Sick-Chicken Case
500
A New Deal project, this is the least popular and lesser used NYC airport. It was named after a popular former NY congressman and NYC mayor.
What is Laguardia Airport
500
One of the enduring legacies of the new deal was that it built a loyal coalition of voters for the Democratic party composed of big city machines, racial and religious minorities (especially Jews, Catholics, and African Americans), white Southerners, intellectuals an blue-collar workers associated with these organizations such as the United Auto Workers and Congress of Industrial Organizations.
What are Labor Unions
600
The 1930s was the first and only time in U.S. history where more people were leaving than coming. They were going to this place where jobs were aplenty and it seemed like its economic and political model was the wave of the future.
What is the Soviet Union
600
As a government paid photographer, her job was to document the plight of migrant workers during the Great Depression. Her portrait of "Migrant Mother" captures to desperation of poverty and the depth of suffering during the Great Depression
Who is Dorothea Lange
600
"India is no more a nation than the Equator"
"Great mismanagement and weakness are causing unrest to 300 million primitive people whose well-being is in our care"
Who is Winston Churchill?
600
The controversial Agricultural Adjustment Act aimed to “ease the desperate plight of farmers,” by stabilizing farm prices through paying farmers not to plant crops and slaughtering excess livestock
What is Recovery
600
Known as the PWA, this agency provided grants-in-aid to local governments for large infrastructure projects, such as bridges, tunnels, schoolhouses, libraries, and America’s first federal public housing projects.
What is the Public Works Administration?
600
Located outside of Chattanooga, the Chickamauga Dam is part of this publicly-managed utility service, providing flood control and electricity to a previously impoverished and neglected part of Appalachia-America. Not to confuse it with the mysterious Time Variance Authority in the Disney Series LOKI.
What is the TVA/ Tennessee Valley Authority.
600
The Judicial Procedures Act, otherwise known as this plan where FDR tried to get the court he wanted
What was the "Court-Packing" Plan
700
Hoping to promote domestic consumption, Hoover signed into law in 1930 this exorbitantly high tariff, never intending it would usher in a global economic collapse.
What is Smoot-Hawley Tariff
700
Group of nine young black men riding the rails between Chattanooga and Memphis, Tennessee, in 1931. Pulled from the train in Alabama, and charged with assaulting two white women. Despite clear evidence that the assault had not occurred, these men were found guilty and sentenced to death. Acquitted later on appeal
Who were the Scottsboro Boys.
700
"Refusing to allow people to be paid less than a living wage preserves to us our own market.... there is absolutely no use in producing anything if you gradually reduce the number of people able to buy even the cheapest products......The only way to preserve our markets is an adequate wage."
....Remember your Crash Course Mystery Document
Who is Eleanor Roosevelt?
700
The Emergency Banking Act of 1933- establishing "Bank Holidays" and restoring public confidence in the banking institutions that reopened
What is relief
700
The government agency created by President Hoover in 1932 to provide emergency loans to banks, railroads, and other private industries, which was criticized for favoring industrial and financial interests over the general public.... Criticized as a "handout to millionaires"
What was the Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
700
This New Deal construction project, completed in 1937, as scary as it is, is popular with commuters from New Jersey into Manhattan.
What is the Holland Tunnel
700
Upon becoming president, FDR had to face a growing and concerning problem of banks closing at an alarming rate. Under the Emergency Banking Act, FDR acted swiftly to restore confidence in America's banking system. First thing he did was declare this, closing the banks and reopening those guaranteed safe.
What is a "Banking Holiday"