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- Discuss the political, economic, and social characteristics of the 1920s. Cite at least one example for each characteristic. What was significant about the Scopes Trial?
- What were the causes of the Great Depression and how did it affect the world economy? Evaluate Hoover’s policies to curb the Great Depression and discuss the events that led to the Bonus Army March on Washington.
- Explain FDR’s New Deal Program, which include relief, recovery and reform. Cite three New Deal laws passed in the 1930s still in effect today?
- Discuss the causes and consequences of the Cold War. What were the principles of the Containment policy and give at least three examples of its application after World War II?
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Discuss the political, economic, and social characteristics of the 1920s
The 1920s were a time of passionate social and political change. Out of blue a more prominent
number of Americans lived in urban territories than on farms. The nation's wealth drastically
expanded some place in the scope of 1920 and 1929 and budgetary improvement cleared various
Americans into an august yet new "customer society". Individuals the country over acquired
comparable product tuned to a bit of comparable music, did in like manner moves and even used
comparable slang.
In the midst of the 1920s, various Americans had extra money to spend, and they spent it on
buyer items, for instance, arranged to-wear pieces of clothing and home machines like electric
coolers. In particular, they acquired radios. The fundamental business radio station in the U.S.,
Pittsburgh's KDKA, hit the remote transmissions in 1920; following three years there were more
than 500 stations in the nation. Prior to the completion of the 1920s, there were radios more than
10 million nuclear families. People similarly went out to see the movies: Historians measure that,
before the decades' finished, 70% of the American masses visited a film reliably (History.com
Editors, 2019). This is the point at which the economy of the car tagged along (administration
stations, motels, and drivers were conceived).
Autos furthermore allowed youths the chance to go where they needed and do what they
required. (A couple of erudite people called them "rooms on wheels.") What various adolescents
expected to do was move: the Charleston, the cake walk, the dull base, the enormous hop. In the
midst of the 1920s, a couple of chances were expanded while others were diminished. The
Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution, endorsed in 1919, had limited the creation and
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leeway of "intoxicating alcohols," and at 12 A.M. on January 16, 1920, the administration
Volstead Act shut every bar, bar, and cantina in the United States.
Forswearing was not using any and all means the main wellspring of social weight in the midst
of the 1920s. The Great Migration of African Americans from the Southern field to Northern
urban networks and the growing porousness of dull culture—jazz and blues music, for example,
and the imaginative advancement known as the Harlem Renaissance—puzzled some white
Americans.
Causes of the Great Depression
1. The natives of the US trust that the financial exchange crash that occurred on Black Tuesday is
like the Great Depression. The Black Tuesday is one of the real causes that brought about the
Great Depression. Two months after the main accident in October, financial specialists had lost
more than $30 billion dollars. In spite of the way that the money related trade began to recover a
bit of its incidents, before the completion of 1930, it basically was insufficient and America
really entered what is known as the Great Depression
2. All through the 1930s, in excess of 8,000 banks failed. Bank stores were uninsured and as
such as banks failed people basically lost their venture reserves. Suffering banks, questionable of
the budgetary condition and stressed for their own survival, quit being as prepared to make new
credits. This exacerbated the condition inciting less and less utilizations.
3. With the money related trade crash and the sentiments of fear of further fiscal inconveniences,
individuals from all classes quit getting things. This by then incited an abatement in the quantity
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of things conveyed and what's more, thusly a lessening in the workforce. As people lost their
positions, they were unfit to remain mindful of paying for things they had obtained through
segment plans and their things were repossessed.
4. As associations began missing the mark, the governing body made the Smoot-Hawley Tax in
1930 to help guarantee American associations. This charged a high obligation for imports as
needs be inciting less trade among America and outside countries close by some money related
striking back.
Hoover’s policies to curb the Great Depression
Hoover accepted, as completed various educated people at the time, that high wages caused
flourishing, despite the fact that the genuine causation is from capital collection to expanded
work profitability to higher wages. He contended that if significant firms cut wages, laborers
would not have the obtaining power they expected to purchase the merchandise being delivered.
As most despondencies include falling costs, slicing wage...
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