Chapter 23 - The Great Depression

Soap operas

Soap operas

________, also later to become staples of television programming, were enormously popular on radio in the 1930s, especially with women who were alone in the house during the day.

Des Moines

In the summer of 1932, a group of unhappy farm owners gathered in ________, Iowa, to establish a new organization: the Farmers Holiday Association, which endorsed the withholding of farm products from the market- in effect a farmers strike.

Spanish Civil War

The ________ was important to many American intellectuals, especially those on the left.

Socialist Party

The ________ of America, under the leadership of Norman Thomas, also cited the economic crisis as evidence of the failure of capitalism and sought vigorously to win public support for its own political program.

international financial panic

The ________ of the spring of 1931 destroyed the illusion that the economic crisis was coming to an end.

California

In ________, younger men and women organized Japanese American Democratic Clubs in several cities, which worked for, among other things, laws protecting racial and ethnic minorities from discrimination.

1930

In Atlanta in ________, an organization calling itself the Black Shirts organized a campaign with the slogan "No Jobs for Niggers Until Every White Man Has a Job !.

stock market crash

The ________ of 1929 did not so much cause the Depression, then, as help trigger a chain of events that exposed long- standing weaknesses in the American economy.

Roosevelt

________ worked no miracles in New York, but he did initiate enough positive programs of government assistance to be able to present himself as a more energetic and imaginative leader than Hoover.

American gross national product

The ________ plummeted from more than $ 104 billion in 1929 to $ 76.4 billion in 1932- a 25 percent decline in three years.

champion of animation

The 1930s saw the beginning of Walt Disneys long reign as the ________ and childrens entertainment.

Mexican Americans

________ filled many of the same menial jobs in the West and elsewhere that African Americans filled in other regions.

Farm Board

A federally sponsored ________ would make loans to national marketing cooperatives or establish corporations to buy surpluses and thus raise prices.