Decade - 1930s

Bennett was elected during the worst time, and that was the Depression. He tried to fight the depression by trading more with the British Empire and imposing tariffs for imports from outside the Empire promising that this would blast Canadian exports into world markets, but it didn't go so well. Car owners who could no longer afford gasoline reverted to having their vehicles pulled by horses and named them Bennett buggies after Bennett.

People listened to live music, for example square dancing, juke joints,ballroom dancing.

Musicals and more musicals; talking movies only got going after The Jazz singer in 1928, and of course singing is better than talking... Busby Berkeley was a director of musicals of that time and is a good place to start...

James favorite hobby was hearing stories from his mother, drawing, coloring, and doing plays with his mother.

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James Dean's favorite hobbies were playing the bongos, riding his motorcycle, drawing, and racing.

There was no 'broadcast' television as we know it, in the 1930's. It was for the most part, still in the inventors' hands (and minds.) Modern television did not become affordable and popular until the 1950's.

Segregation of the races was still legal in many Southern States, as a result of the Supreme Court decision known as Plessy v Ferguson (1896), which allowed "separate but equal" public facilities for Black and White. DeFacto segregation (separation of races by "fact" not by "law") existed in the North during the years of the Depression.

The governments of Germany, Italy, Austria, Hungary, Rumania, Greece, Spain and Portugal all implemented their own forms of fascism between the 1920s and 1940s. Additionally, the governments of Japan, China, Brazil and Argentina during this era were heavily influenced by Italian fascism and German national-socialism.

The kinds of jobs that men did in the 1930s often involved physical labor. Many times they worked on farms, in factories, or on construction projects such as those for buildings, roads, and bridges.

The federal Art Project paid artest to produce public art

The actual answer is northeast in the united nations text book does not say other places only this one

The weekley averages of a doctor was $61.11 and now is $1800 ummm the weekely wages was $15.00 and now is $236

Economic indicators show that GNP in the American economy reached its low in the summer of 1932 to February 1933, then steadily climbed upward until a downturn in 1938. However, unemployment continued to remain at very high levels until 1941.

Women got the vote in America in 1920. However, black women, like black men, were often prevented from voting in the south by the poll tax, literacy laws, threats, intimidation, and outright violence.

Most single women worked for a living, and so did a lot of married women. The number of married women going out to work increased during the 1930s because many women were trying to keep their families afloat. Some people objected to married women working, because they thought they were taking jobs from single women who needed to support themselves. Many school boards, for instance, refused to hire married women teachers. But in spite of this, the number of working married women increased steadily throughout the 30s.

It was still a widely held assumption that the man should be the head of the household, and many women preferred it that way. But not all couples were the same. Some wives ruled the roost, and some couples had a more equal relationship. Generally, most married couples probably didn't get along any worse than most do now, and some were probably getting along better.

The marriage rate dropped in the 30s: "Do you realise how many people in my generation are not married?" asked Elsa Ponselle, who was working as a teacher when the Chicago school system ran out of money and started paying its staff with I.O.U.s. Her boyfriend, a commercial artist, vanished when he was laid off from his job. "It hit him like a ton of bricks." she said. Magazines once again ran articles about women who found happiness in life without a husband. 'Live Alone And Like It' was a best-seller.

In the 1940s, some women were able to obtain better-paid employment than they had formerly had by working in defence. Peggy Terry, who got a job with her mother and sister at a shell-loading plant in Kentucky, was euphoric. "We made the fabulous sum of thirty-two dollars a week" she said. "To us it was an absolute miracle. Before that, we made nothing." As a result of the great migration of women to defence jobs, 600 laundries went out of business in 1942, and in Detroit, a third of the restaurants closed because of the lack of help.

Although most unmarried women were already working when the war started, a number of college students quit school to join the war effort. Among the other early volunteers were the wives of servicemen: "Darling, you are now the husband of a career woman - just call me your Shipyard Babe!" wrote Polly Crow to her husband overseas.

By late 1942, unemployment was virtually non-existent, and the government projected a need for 3 million more workers in the next year. The prime pool of potential workers was married women. Ads and movie newsreels constantly emphasised how defence work was just like housework. However, even when the war was at its height, and the need for workers was most desperate, nearly 90 percent of the housewives who had been at home when Pearl Harbor was bombed still ignored the call.

One of the reasons was undoubtedly the lack of child care. Unlike England, where the government provided all sorts of support services for women who worked, the US government left them to their own devices. Congress didn't appropriate money for federal daycare until 1943, and even then it was used so ineptly that only about 10 percent of the defence workers' children were ever enrolled. Defence work was also hard and dirty. A lot of women found it unappealing.

Whether women worked or not, their lives were made infinitely more complicated by rationing, which restricted the availability of sugar, coffee, butter, certain types of meat, and canned goods as well as things like gasoline, tires, and stockings. Unable to find stockings, women began wearing makeup on their legs instead. And since the stockings of the 1940s had seams down the back, women's magazines ran guides on how to draw a realistic-looking line down the calf.

Civilians got stamps ever month that gave them the right to buy different products. "My mother and all the neighbours would get together round the dining-room table and they'd be changing a sugar coupon for a bread or meat coupon. It was like a giant Monopoly game" said Sheril Cunning, who was a child in Long Beach, California, during the war.

The US is concerned anytime a nation expands using methods of violence. The concern is elevated when the countries involved may cause a domino/or destabilization effect with neighboring nations.

No. America MIGHT be in a recession, which is classified as two consecutive quarters of negative GDP growth (of which we now have one). As of December 1, 2008, we are officially in a recession. Two quarters, no growth. Next step.....depression.

Which Depression? The US has experienced quite a few.

Let's begin with the Depression of 1837. It lasted until the middle 1840's and unemployment reached 25% in some areas.

Then there was the Depression of 1873. It lasted until 1879 and unemployment peaked at 8.25%.

This brings us to the Depression of 1893. Unemployment varied all over the country. In Pennsylvania it reached 25%, in New York 35%, and in Michigan 43%.

Then there was the Depression of 1920-21. Unemployment varied again by area, and ran anywhere from 5.2 to 11.7%.

Then comes the "Great Depression" of 1930. Unemployment in the US reached 25% and may have exceeded that in some states.

From then until 2008, there have been a number of recessions and economic downturns in the US. Many debate the 2008 Crisis being a depression, but it meets the definition: " a depression is a sustained, long-term downturn in economic activity in one or more economies. It is a more severe downturn than a recession."

The unemployment rate (that is trackable statistics) reported by the US Department of Labor shows that the rate peaked in October 2010 at 10%. This of course only takes into account those who report to state unemployment agencies, or receive benefits. This too is a national average, and not all states experienced the same conditions. Michigan for instance peaked at near 15% in 2009, and still hovers around 8%, while the Dakotas ring in around 2.6%.

Ebby Edwards was a very powerful union leader of the miners from the 1930s to the 1950s. In addition, leaders included Peter Lee, Ernest Jones, and Will Lawther.

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Japan invaded Manchuria. They did this because Manchuria was poorly defended and had many resources. It had living space for their surplus population and Manchuria had enough raw materials, food and other goods that would make Japan self-sufficient.

About four million. There were also eight million whites in the slave states. The proportion of slaves in the populations of the slave states ranged from 13% in Maryland to 55% in Mississippi and 57% in South Carolina.
By 1860, many southern slave owners and plantation owners owned less than 100 black slaves in their farming land.
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In the 1930's black people did not have alot of rights, they could not vote, they could not sit in the same parts of resturants as white people or the bus. They had separate drinking fountains, bathrooms, they couldn't even walk into the front door of a building. Black people were second class. An incident shocked America when a black lady, Rosa Parks was on a full bus and a white man wanted to get on, after being told to get off she refused to move an inch! This was all changed when Martin Luther King Jr. led the civil rights movement in the 30's. He also said the famous "I Have A Dream" speech. This stopped most of the segregation in the South and black people were given more rights.

Blacks actually gained the right to vote in 1870, long before the '30s. Also, Martin Luther King Jr. was born in 1929. There is no way he lead the civil rights movement at 1-10 years old! The Harlem Renaissance took place around the '30s, and the civil rights movement took place from about 1955-1968.

The REAL answer lies somewhere in the middle. True, all MALE citizens of the US were granted the right to vote in the 1800s, but in reality, most Blacks were not allowed to vote given the 3/5th amendment of the Constitution (blacks were not even counted as a whole person); and South's Jim Crow Laws as well as Grandfather codes--i.e., the idea that one could vote if their grandfathers had voted. Which of course was an impossibility for Blacks who were enslaved and indentured. Those who risked exercising their "right to vote" were lynched, hanged, burned, etc. All of this is well-documented, and not a matter of conjecture. Had it been true that Blacks actually did vote earlier, as the second answer maintains, then the Civil Rights era of the 60s would have lost one of its main tenets. Also note, abolitionists took up the cause for Civil Rights long before Martin Luther King Jr, came on the scene--also well documented. However, it wasn't until the Civil Rights Act that Blacks could actually exercise their full rights as citizens to use public services and seek full redress, or expect proper representation from their government. As an end note, the Harlem Renaissance was an artistic era. In the 1930's black people did not have alot of rights.

But the thing is is that black people did HAVE rights written in the constitution its just that the south didn't treat black or just "colored people" in general like they didn't have any. So they could ride the same bus or go into the same bus as whites its just that some white people didn't like that they had different skin and they treated them like they had to listen to them and lsiten to the "law" that they made even though that black people had as many rights as white people, they just don't treat them like they do.

The luger was actually better in performance and was more acurate. Also it was given to the more higher ranked Nazi's such as the Waffen SS. And some other soldiers involved in the war. And although the P-38 was cheaper and easier to produce it did not have the amazing quality of the luger. Infact my uncle has two luger made in 1915 and 1917 and they have never jammed once.

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Dictators were able to rise to power easily during the 1930s because of the recent World War and a world-wide depression. Many people were seeking economic stability, a surplus of food, a strong leader to help them, and some national pride. This is just what dictators like Hitler, Stalin, and Tojo offered.

The women's role revolved around the cooking, housecleaning, and mending became if anything more necessary. The traditional gender roles assumed that all women were members of families with a male breadwinner at its head, but that did not always match reality. Women who were widowed or divorced, or whose husbands had deserted them really struggled to keep their families afloat; single women had to fend for themselves, they would take in other people's laundry to make ends meet, life was tough in the 1930's.