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The Great Depression started with the stock market crash of 1929 and lasted until 1946 and the end of World War II. You will explore these events through powerful images, audio content, interactive maps, and political cartoons. Key Vocabulary. Engage: How do images from the Great Depression show conflicting realities of life in America?
- The Depression and Industry Finances
- The Movies of "Pre-Code Hollywood"
- The Battle Over Control and "Post-Pca" Depression Movies
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The economic downturn of the Depression was precipitated by a rapid decline in values of stock at the New York Stock Exchange in the fall of 1929. Black Thursday (24 October) and Black Tuesday (29 October) were key moments in the collapse. Overall, the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped from a high of 381 on 3 September to a low of 198 before the...
The period from the 1929 stock market crash until the establishment of the Production Code Administration in June 1934 has been called "pre-code Hollywood." Although film historians have argued about how different pre-code films were from films made later in the decade, a solid argument can be made that there was a distinctive difference. Andrew Be...
The popularity and pervasiveness of the gangster films, the fallen-women films, and West's brazen comedies played a significant role in the protests by a variety of pressure groups against the movie industry between 1932 and early 1934. Among the most prominent of the protesters was the Legion of Decency, a Catholic organization that sought to pres...
Balio, Tino. Grand Design: Hollywood as a Modern Business Enterprise, 1930–1939. History of the American Cinema. New York: Scribner, 1993. Bergman, Andrew. We're in the Money: Depression America and Its Films. New York: Harper and Row, 1971. Doherty, Thomas Patrick. Pre-Code Hollywood: Sex, Immorality, and Insurrection in American Cinema, 1930–1934...
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In 1932, nearly 2,300 banks collapsed, taking personal deposits, savings, and credit with them. Run on the American Union Bank, New York City. April 26, 1932. The Great Depression was the confluence of problems which had begun during a time of unprecedented economic growth.
From industrial strongholds to the rural Great Plains, from factory workers to farmers, the Great Depression affected millions. In cities, as industry slowed, then sometimes stopped altogether, workers lost jobs and joined breadlines, or sought out other charitable efforts. With limited government relief efforts, private charities tried to help ...
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The stock market crash of 1929 touched off a chain of events that plunged the United States into its longest, deepest economic crisis of its history. Nine thousand banks failed during the months following the stock market crash of 1929. It is far too simplistic to view the stock market crash as the single cause of the Great Depression.
This module offers three perspectives on the Great Depression, two in graph form and one as a map. The first graph charts stock market prices from 1923 to 1939. The second graph reveals unemployment from 1925 to 1943.
