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1 Alan Brinkley, The Unfinished Nation 6/e
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression

2 The Coming of the Great Depression
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression Soaring Stock Market The Great Crash “Black Tuesday” Wall Street (Licensed for Use) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

3 The Coming of the Great Depression
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression Causes of the Depression Poor Economic Diversification Uneven Distribution of Wealth International Debt Structure © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

4 The Coming of the Great Depression
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Coming of the Great Depression Progress of the Depression Banking Crisis Plunging GNP The Unemployed, (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

5 The American People in Hard Times
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The American People in Hard Times Unemployment and Relief “Dust Bowl” A Dust Storm (CORBIS / Royalty Free) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

6 The American People in Hard Times
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The American People in Hard Times African Americans and the Depression Soaring Black Unemployment “Scottsboro Boys” Hispanics and Asians in Depression America Hispanic Resistance Asians Marginalized © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

7 The American People in Hard Times
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The American People in Hard Times Women and Families in the Great Depression Growing Female Employment Declining Marriage and Birth Rates © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

8 The Depression and American Culture
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Depression and American Culture Depression Values Prevailing Values Reinforced Dale Carnegie Farm Family in Indiana (Microsoft Encarta) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

9 The Depression and American Culture
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Depression and American Culture Radio Radio’s Mass Popularity Escapist Programming Depression Era Radio (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

10 The Depression and American Culture
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Depression and American Culture The Movies Hollywood’s Self-Censorship Frank Capra Walt Disney Popular Literature and Journalism John Dos Passos © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

11 The Depression and American Culture
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Depression and American Culture The Popular Front and the Left Abraham Lincoln Brigade Southern Tenant Farmers Union Let Us Now Praise Famous Men The Grapes of Wrath “Communism is twentieth century Americanism” —Earl Browder © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

12 The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover The Hoover Program Failure of Voluntary Cooperation Agricultural Marketing Act Failure of the RFC Herbert Hoover (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

13 The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover Popular Protest Farmers’ Holiday Association Demise of the “Bonus Army” Hooverville. Portland, Oregon (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

14 The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover The Election of 1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR Elected The Election of 1932 © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

15 Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression
The Changing of the Guard, New Yorker (FDR Library) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

16 The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression The Ordeal of Herbert Hoover The “Interregnum” Banking Collapse Franklin Delano Roosevelt (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

17 The Global Depression Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression
America in the World: The Global Depression © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.

18 Causes of the Great Depression
Chapter Twenty-three: The Great Depression Debating the Past: Causes of the Great Depression The Unemployed, (Library of Congress) © 2011, The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. All Rights Reserved.


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