The Great Depression
On October 24, 1929, “Black Thursday”, the Wall Street stock market collapsed, initiating the onset of one of America’s darkest times in history, the Great Depression. This economic downward spiral, caused banks to close, unemployment to rise, people to lose their homes, and a panic amongst the people, affecting every household, every man, women and child. There was an increase in the suicide rate, in violence, families were evicted from their homes and not to forget, people going hungry. The Great Depression was indeed a dark and devastating time in the history of United States. It was the time in history, when Hoover was President and slow in his response to the American people and to the economic turmoil in America. …show more content…
This war brought on a new war production, causing industries to magically spring up, in order to produce ships, planes, bombs, and other weaponries. The American people and its economy where committed to the war and to war production, and to the many thousands of jobs it produced. Also, World War II was called “A Wizard War”, as it was a time when many of the nation’s top scientists, mathematicians, and psychologists went to work deciphering enemy codes, finding better ways to use war time propaganda, and develop new and improved arsenal. In 1941, Roosevelt implemented the Office of Scientific Research and Development (ORSD), which funded many new scientific developments. These new developments also produced new jobs that saved the lives of many American soldiers and many Americans across the nation. World War II ended the Great depression for America, however, with its new scientific discoveries, came the design of the atomic bomb, a bomb so intense in power, that it cost many Japanese men, women, and children their lives? Over all, World War II not only brought about new scientific research, it also brought about a change in America, not only economically, but psychologically as well, for now America had the power to bring about a devastation as never …show more content…
It was a time when jobs were few, people had little or no money, with many losing their homes to foreclosure. It was a time of hardship and suffering that affected nearly every American. I would say it was a hopeless time in their lives, especially in the lives of the people living in the Great Plains, for the “Dust Bowl” of 1941 had to have taken from the people whatever the Great Depression did not. Many of the programs and policies of the “New Deal”, implemented by Roosevelt, did have an impact in bringing some relief to the American people, as they did create new jobs, however, unemployment still remained high and hardships continued. What truly brought America out the Great Depression and out of its hopeless economic state was World War II. With the war came the need for new industry and the production of newly invented wartime arsenals along with new scientific discoveries, therefore, producing thousands of new jobs in America, and new ways in which to save lives for all Americans. The recovery gave women the opportunity to broaden their perspective of the world, by allowing them to work outside the home, giving them a new sense of independence and the ability to seek their own new, life changing, possibilities. After the devastation of the Great Depression and the war on Japan, American culture changed yet, America immerged as a strong, confident nation with a much
On October 24, 1929, “Black Thursday”, the Wall Street stock market collapsed, initiating the onset of one of America’s darkest times in history, the Great Depression. This economic downward spiral, caused banks to close, unemployment to rise, people to lose their homes, and a panic amongst the people, affecting every household, every man, women and child. There was an increase in the suicide rate, in violence, families were evicted from their homes and not to forget, people going hungry. The Great Depression was indeed a dark and devastating time in the history of United States. It was the time in history, when Hoover was President and slow in his response to the American people and to the economic turmoil in America. …show more content…
This war brought on a new war production, causing industries to magically spring up, in order to produce ships, planes, bombs, and other weaponries. The American people and its economy where committed to the war and to war production, and to the many thousands of jobs it produced. Also, World War II was called “A Wizard War”, as it was a time when many of the nation’s top scientists, mathematicians, and psychologists went to work deciphering enemy codes, finding better ways to use war time propaganda, and develop new and improved arsenal. In 1941, Roosevelt implemented the Office of Scientific Research and Development (ORSD), which funded many new scientific developments. These new developments also produced new jobs that saved the lives of many American soldiers and many Americans across the nation. World War II ended the Great depression for America, however, with its new scientific discoveries, came the design of the atomic bomb, a bomb so intense in power, that it cost many Japanese men, women, and children their lives? Over all, World War II not only brought about new scientific research, it also brought about a change in America, not only economically, but psychologically as well, for now America had the power to bring about a devastation as never …show more content…
It was a time when jobs were few, people had little or no money, with many losing their homes to foreclosure. It was a time of hardship and suffering that affected nearly every American. I would say it was a hopeless time in their lives, especially in the lives of the people living in the Great Plains, for the “Dust Bowl” of 1941 had to have taken from the people whatever the Great Depression did not. Many of the programs and policies of the “New Deal”, implemented by Roosevelt, did have an impact in bringing some relief to the American people, as they did create new jobs, however, unemployment still remained high and hardships continued. What truly brought America out the Great Depression and out of its hopeless economic state was World War II. With the war came the need for new industry and the production of newly invented wartime arsenals along with new scientific discoveries, therefore, producing thousands of new jobs in America, and new ways in which to save lives for all Americans. The recovery gave women the opportunity to broaden their perspective of the world, by allowing them to work outside the home, giving them a new sense of independence and the ability to seek their own new, life changing, possibilities. After the devastation of the Great Depression and the war on Japan, American culture changed yet, America immerged as a strong, confident nation with a much