2 Discussion Questions; 1 Assignment (Paper)

After the end of World War I, overall economic growth exploded in the US in the early 1920s, but then there was a severe economic breakdown with the Great Depression of 1929-1939.

Choose and discuss (in a full paragraph or two) one of the following two topics related to the 1920s and1930s.

1. The textbook highlights the significant emergence of new cultural trends due to improved technology (radio, movies, photography) and the spread of books & magazines (writers) in the “roaring” 1920s as well as in the 1930s, and also to new movements like the Harlem Renaissance, consumerism, and new “norms” for women.

. Consider the new technology of radio and photography. With specific examples from the 1920s, discuss how these new technologies helped one of the movements and trends above.

. Explain whether you think this helped to develop a more unified national culture or more individuality, and identify a similar example today with technology helping a trend or movement.

. Identify the source(s) where you read about the trend of the 1920s.

· The Great Depression (1929-1939) was one of the most devastating economic downturns that America has ever experienced. Determine whether you believe that the federal responses to the Great Depression by President Franklin Roosevelt encouraged real economic growth and confidence or whether the arguments by critics of the day were accurate that it made the Depression last longer.

. Identify your position and support it with at least two specific examples of New Deal responses.

. Provide a rationale for your response.

. From this historical experience, identify any lessons for today for handling or avoiding severe economic downturns in the U.S. economy.

. Identify the source(s) where you read about the New Deal responses.

Part 2: Respond to a Peer Below

Read a post by one of your peers and respond, making sure to extend the conversation by asking questions, offering rich ideas, or sharing personal connections.

Alicia Howard

RE: Week 5 Discussion

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Franklin D. Roosevelt was a Democratic Party candidate in the running to be the president. During his speech, he stated "I pledge you, I pledge myself, to a new deal for the American people." Franklin Roosevelt won the presidential election in 1932, 3 years after the Great Depression begun. The New Deal he promised on began to take shape soon after his inauguration. It was vital that the federal government help the country out of depression, Roosevelt and his administrators took action and started banking reform laws, emergency relief programs, work programs, and agricultural programs. Later, the second New Deal came into play. It included the Social Securtiy Act, union programs, and programs that aided farmers and migrant workers. For example, the Securities Act & Securities Exchange Act (SEC) was an act that allowed federal regulation of stock trading in public corporations. Another example was the Home Owners' Loan Act (HOLC) which provided financial assistance to home owners and the mortgage industry. The New Deal and second New Deal programs truly helped improve the way of life that had been brought upon America, in the long run the programs had a vital role in the growth area both ecomonically and socially. Lessons that were gained for today's society is the fact we should take bank crisis seriously. We must maintain a leader who is strong minded, focus, diligently willing to accept duties, and a leader is a willing to own up to the promises made and manages to deliver the visions that they planned out.

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