1. SS6H7-The student will explain conflict and change in Europe to the 21st century. A. Describe major developments following World War I: the Russian Revolution, the Treaty of Versailles, worldwide depression, and the rise of Nazism.

2. What was life like during ?

3. 1920’s Culture The flapper Short hair for women Hats for men and women Dancing Silent movies “The Jazz Age was wicked and monstrous and silly. Unfortunately, I had a good time.” Heywood Broun

4. What was life like in the 1930’s?

5. What was the Great Depression? The worst economic crisis of the century Over 13 million people unemployed “Dust bowl” as a result of drought Farmers lost crops Many lost their homes

6. What caused the Great Depression? Unequal distribution of wealth Stock market crash of 1929

7. Unequal Distribution of Wealth No middle class Supply not equal to demand Credit cards created false demand

8. Stock Market Crash Many stocks purchased Stock prices fell Huge sums of money lost Thursday, October 24, 1929

9. The Results Bank Failure

10. Unemployment

11. Loss of homes “Hoovervilles” Here were all these people living in old rusted-out car bodies.... One family... [was] living in a piano box. This wasn't just a little section, this was maybe 10 miles wide and 10 miles long. People living in whatever they could junk together...."

12. Dustbowls A traveler noticed a nice new hat by the side of the road, and he stopped to pick it up. Under the hat was a man, buried up to his neck in the dust! As he dug the poor fellow out, the traveler asked if he wanted a ride into town. "No, I'll get there myself," the man replied, "I'm on a horse." (Excerpt from THE DUST BOWL by Tricia Andryszewski, p. 33.)

13. Depression

14. “The only thing we have to fear is fear itself” “Our greatest primary task is to put people to work” Franklin D. Roosevelt

15. FDR’s New Deal Relief for the needy Jobs provided Business and government reformed

16. Images from The Great Depression

18. Destitute pea pickers in California Lange, Dorothea

19. Flood refugee encampment at Forrest City, Arkansas Evans, Walker

20. "We're living in a tent because we wouldn't pay anyone thirty or thirty-five dollars for a two-room bug trap." Mission Valley, San Diego, California. Lee, Russell

21. Family of tenant farmer at noonday meal near Muskogee, Oklahoma. His wife is shooing away flies with branch. Lee, Russell

22. Photographs allow us to look back at life during the Great Depression. They help us understand… What family life was like. Working conditions. The state of the country.