Historical Investigation Pre–IB IA How did the Great Depression begin in Germany and what are its impacts on the economy? Table of Contents: Section A: Plan of Investigation ………………………………………… 3 Section B: Summary of Evidence ………………………………………… 4 - 6 Section C: An Evaluation of Sources ………………………………………… 7 Section D: Analysis ………………………………………… 8 - 10 Section E: Conclusion ………………………………………… 11 Section F: Referencing …………………………………………. 12 Section A: Plan of
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Throughout history‚ disasters have always happened. There have been natural catastrophes and man-made fiascos‚ among others. The Great Depression was a financial woe that affected everyone; rich to poor. Many events contributed to this debacle. There was a false sense of prosperity‚ a global crisis‚ and investors spending wildly. Eventually‚ all of this led up to the stock market crash of 1929. Banks failed‚ and people stopped spending in the fear that they would lose all of their money. Since no
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Maycomb‚ Alabama‚ around the era of the great depression‚ Scout describes the town and people living in it plainly boring‚ hot‚ filthy‚ slow‚ with an abandoned feel. "In rainy weather‚ the streets turned into red slop; grass grew on sidewalks‚ the court house sagged in the square"(Lee 5). "People moved slowly then. They ambled across the square‚ shuffled in and out of the stores around it‚ took their time about everything"(Lee 5). This reveals how the Great Depression really had a major impact on people
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The Great Depression was a long‚ severe‚ recession in the economy market that caused the stock market to crash. Millions of people lost their jobs and banks closed because so many people were in deptt but didn’t have the money to pay the bank back because they were unemployed. Therefore‚ the banks closed and all of their saved income was gone. The Great Depression had very big impacts on American society both socially and economically. The American society‚ socially had a very big impact planted
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Franklin D. Roosevelt said‚ ”The only thing to fear is fear itself.” He had said this to show people that he will take care of the problems the United States were having‚ and he proved it as they got through the “great depression.” and through “World War II.” He had started a thing called “100 days” that gave unemployed people many jobs. Franklin grew up on a big farm with his mom and dad and brother‚ he had wanted to work with politics and later in his life was in state senate for New york City
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The Great Depression‚ starting in the early 1930’s‚ was a devastating event putting millions out of work and destroying the economy of the time with frozen credit and deflation. The Great Depression left people of the United States hungry and scrambling to find jobs where there were none. Starting with the stock market crash‚ banks failing‚ and farmers left in shambles after World War I‚ it caused people to lose jobs leaving them on the streets unable to find new places of work because many companies
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The Great Depression Overview The Great Depression was the deepest economic downturn of the Western industrialised world and last for ten years. It occurred on 1929 to 1939‚ beginning with the collapse of the New York Stock Market on Wall Street. Due to the decline in economic activity‚ millions of people were in poverty and left 28% of the population in the US without an income. It mainly affected the middle class families rather than the rich class who were oblivious to the situation. Causes Before
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the Great Depression was the most severe and sustained economic enfeeblement in the United States. This harsh drawback in the country eventually ensued soon after the stock market crash‚ also known as Black Tuesday‚ in 1929‚ where Wall Street experienced extreme panic and lost many investors. Declines in industry and the rise of unemployment came about due to the plummeting of consumer spending and investments. President Franklin D. Roosevelt though helped to lessen the effects of the Great Depression
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The Great Depression and the Current Recession David Gillies‚ Melissa Phillips‚ Chad Ruter‚ and Pat Warren University of Sioux Falls Consumer Price Index The consumer pricing index (CPI) is a measure of the price level of consumer goods and services. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics began calculating and issuing the monthly calculation in 1919. The CPI is calculated by observing price changes among a wide range of products and weighing these price changes by the share of income consumers
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America called the Great Depression. Everyone had money invested into something and when the stock market crashed all of the invested into that was gone and all the money in land became worth nothing. Everything people owned became worthless‚ everything worth something was now worth nothing. Even the richest families became poor. Even though Maycomb‚ Alabama was not a real place it described the way other cities were like. Since Harper Lee grew up during the great depression and her To Kill a Mockingbird
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