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- The Cycle of the Great Depression:
- stock market crash
- people lost money
- lost savings in banks because banks failed
- people weren't buying goods
- businesses weren't making money, had to lay off workers
- people got laid off and didn't have money
- struggling to survive so they didn't buy goods either
- repeat cycle
- Culture of the 1930:
- mostly had elegant day dresses
- night wear dresses-more flowy
- women were expected to look nice while around the house
- cotton was the most popular because it was cheap
- silk too because it made them look rich
- guys wore tuxedos with top hates
- the topless sun bathing became normal for men
- after the war started women wore suits and lower heels to support the army wear
- PWA
- made alot of construction projects
- had a sprial effect on other companies (cement, birck plastic, etc.)
- Dorothy Lang
- famous photographer during the Great Depression
- her mom wanted her to be a nurse, went to medical school, came back to be a photographer tho
- 1st husband-had 2 kids with him
- she had a studio in San Fransisco
- John Dillanger
- famous mobster that robbed 2 dozen banks and 4 police station
- died in 1934 July 22
- interested in baseball, fast cars, and money
- movie made about him
- did it because of the thrill and easy money..
- Criticizes of the New Deal Project
- people thought FDR just wanted more power than he was allowed
- Rivers and Lakes
- gava people jobs to build them
- Hoover Dam
- Rivers gave people fresh water to drink
- Unemployed
- 13 million unemployed
- that's why Hitler came to power.
- Promised them a place to live
- Grant Wood
- famous painter of american gothic painting
- his mother would give him burnt sticks as a kid to draw with
- went to the Chicago Fine Arts Institute. That's where he entered the American Gothic Painting
- Taught in a school house
- During WWI he would pants camoflauge on tanks
- Francis Perkins
- in 1933 she was appointed secretary of labor
- was the first women in there
- Duke Ellington
- he wrote more than 1,000 compositions
- Jazz
- Gospel
- Classical
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