After the roaring 20s and going into the 1930s‚ America’s economy hit a depression so low millions were left jobless. To make matters worse violent dust storms wreaked havoc on parts of Nebraska‚ Colorado‚ Kansas‚ New Mexico‚ Texas‚ and Oklahoma causing damage to homes‚ crops‚ herds of animals‚ and people living in the area. These series of storms was called the Dust Bowl that lasted nearly a decade. The Dust Bowl was caused by the loss of short grass on the prairie‚ over farming and its harsh treatment
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After the war and during the early 1930’s there were four leading causes of death: heart disease‚ cancer‚ pneumonia‚ and infectious and parasitic diseases including influenza and syphilis. One every twenty Americans were too sick for work or school usually taking approximately ten days for a full recovery‚ however‚ people began taking vitamins‚ insulin‚ and other nutrients which helped create a longer lifespan for the average American. Even with these factors to consider‚ the biggest issue was a
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Analyse the reasons for the rise of militarism in Japan in the 1930s. The rise of Japanese militarism in the 1930s was due to a number of reasons. First‚ Japan’s traditional and cultural policy favoured the rise of militarism. Military tradition of samurai made it easy for the Japanese to accept militarists as leaders. Bushido which promoted martial spirit and good qualities of samurai made the Japanese believe that militarists were more reliable than the corrupt party politicians
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threat of domestic Fascism in 1930s France? The ambiguous‚ often contradictory‚ nature of fascism and the gaps which often exist between fascist ideologies and policies‚ and the different forms in which fascism took in Europe make fascism extremely difficult to define. Between World War I and II fascism did not come to power in France‚ in contrast to other European countries. Yet the threat of domestic fascism in 1930s France was still very real and substantial. The 1930s saw the growth of far right
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In the 1930’s‚ a plethora of lynchings were happening throughout the United States. Many black men and women were being falsely accused of crimes that they did not commit and were put in jail. Some whites believed that they deserved worse than what they were already being put through‚ so they invaded the jails and kidnapped many blacks and lynched them in front of large crowds of people. Abel Meeropol wrote the poem‚ Strange Fruit‚ as a protest to these lynchings. The poem describes the injustice of blacks and whites faced during
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day. The Great Depression took over America in the 1930’s after the stock market crash of October 29‚ 1929. Americans relied too much on credit and put everything they had into the stock markets‚ debatably the worst mistake americans ever made. The Great Depression led to many difficulties in the 1930’s for the American people and government; they dealt with these problems accordingly. The Depression led to many hardships for Americans in the 1930’s. While the rich were getting richer‚ the poor were
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the roaring 20s. What was the roaring 20s? A period of that socially and politically change that happened in the united states and in western Europe between 1920 and 1929 and during this time a lot more Americans moved from farms to cities. The roaring twenties also brought a huge impact on the western culture which included jazz music. So through this essay‚ I will use evidence in from three different sources of to back up the statement "the roaring twenties: a time to forget the war and live life
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The Mexico of the 1930s was primed for change. While the Great Depression threatened never to end and political instability seemed to run in a ravenous cycle‚ Mexico still smoldered through the 1930s‚ in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution. Though the Revolution had blitzed through the country‚ leaving death and deepened social turmoil‚ one could posit that a majority of the occurrences of the mayhem were those meant to inspire positive societal change. For example‚ under Francisco Madero‚ the
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Black Blizzard In 1930 there was lots of bad dust storms in the south west‚ creating one of the worst natural disasters in history. These storms ruined land‚ buried roads‚ ruined car engines‚ gave people dust pneumonia‚ and sometimes killed people. People who could get out of the south west packet up and moved. Some more less unfortunate families couldn’t move and had to stay. In 1900-1930 families started buying land and moving to the plains. They would farm cash crops on the land but it was
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prize along with short-lived international fame. Today’s “me-era” entertainment is known as reality television. In contrast with today’s entertainment‚ in the 1930s it was known as depression-era entertainment. Depression-era entertainment was known as the dance marathon; however‚ dance marathons began years before the depression. By the early 1930s‚ dance marathons had evolved into a perverted human effort of survival of the fittest--Darwinism at its best. Although dance marathons were originally an
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