The culture in the 1930s was completely different from now. The culture, sports, presidents, automobiles, and equality were all different. The movies and books had a different way of talking as far slang, and addressing people. Some of the books in the time were To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Hobbit. The music was completely different there was no rap. It was mainly big bands and swing music. In the 30s there was a new generation of stars in baseball. Baseball wasn 't played much in 30s due to the Great Depression. The Great Depression was when the Wall Street stock market crashed. This caused around 9,000 banks to fail, many people lost their jobs, and people became very poor.
There were not very many cars in the 1930s either.
An economy that is good is very important in a country. In 1929, on the last day of trading, President Hoover did announce that the economy of United States was fundamentally sound. This announcement made the Department of labor in United States to predict that in the next year, 1930, there would be an increase in the number of employments. Things did not go as expected because the economy became bad. This made most investors and even the public in general, withdraw their money from banks because they feared banks would get out of business.
Are the years between 1920 through 1940 different? The years between them were indeed different because through the years of 1920 to 1930 was called “The Roaring Twenties”, and throughout the years of the 1930's to 1940 was called “The Great Depression”. The Roaring Twenties was the time when everyone only cared about happiness, adventures, and freedom. As the years went by, so did the Great Depression. It was a time when everyone became depressed from bank corruption and failure.
The 1930’s was one of the worst decades. The stock market crashed, sending the country into economic depression. Many people in the lower class lost their jobs as businesses shut down. The presidential election of 1932 was affected majorly since a number of the people hated Hoover’s response to the economic crisis. Conditions were really bad, especially for African Americans.
1930’s From the Depression to the Franklin Roosevelt Franklin Delano Roosevelt brought hope as he promised “prompt, vigorous action, and as asserted in his Inaugural Address, the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.” FDR was the president during the Depression, and from that moment on, he turned America around. The 1930’s featured new fashions, lots of inventions, and unfortunately the Great Depression. The 1930’s in the United States was a rough time.
The 1920’s remain to be a great time of change for countless people and many things. Women got the right to vote and the image of women began to take a turn. The gap between rural and urban society was widening and numerous people moved to urban areas. America looks at new people to become American Heros such as Amelia Earhart. Mass media such as movies, radios and newspaper became a new way to produce something and have everybody see it.
During the late 20’s and the early 30’s, economy was on the rise. New inventions were being created, there were many job opportunities, and the stock market was on the rise. When all of the sudden, everything changed. The stock market fell. Jobs were lost.
Imagine a world where there is a group who decides how people are going to look, act around each other, and perceive different issues and controversies. Now imagine that this represents our world. There is no need to imagine because this is how the world is since the beginning of humankind. For hundreds of years, there has been society pressures on many topics and issues. From race to body image, pressures to be “perfect” in the eyes of a powerful social group is present in any period of time in the Anthropocene Era.
Life in the 1920s and 1950s While some similarities were noticeable between the 1920s and the 1950s, the differences were striking. The 1920s was known as the beginning of modern America. The 1950s was known for its lucrative prosperity and anxiety. Both eras’ were similar in their economics. They differed in politics and society.
Our economy during the 1930s was struggling trying to recover from the Great Depression, and this brought out the worst in Americans. The stock crash during the 1930s, left banks uninsured and the government with no compensation for the unemployed. This left hundreds of families begging for food on the streets. During this decade, the Zoot Suit Riots was a primarily example of a hate crime against Mexican American in Los Angeles. This awful event is controversial to this day when discussing who 's to blame for this crime.
In the 1930’s farming and agriculture in general caused a lot of challenges to the American society. The Great Depression was at its peak, America was in the middle of the Dust Bowl, and everyone was tight on money including the upper class of The United States. In the 1930’s – 1940’s it was very common to see kids working on family farms, and running businesses outside of their homes to help put food on the table.
Silent films, jazz concerts, sports, dancing marathons, radio entertainment. Video games, cable TV, digital movies, apps, internet. Any of these sound familiar? The first characteristics belong to the Silent Majority, which is the generation that lived in the 1920s. The other ones pertain to the Millennials, this generation consists of people born in the late 1980s all the way to 2000s.
The 1930’s was a horrendous, dreadful time period that affected the whole world. The U.S got hit especially hard considering the country was very strong and prosperous the previous decade. Farmers that lived in the Panhandle of Oklahoma, Okies, were hit especially hard. The Okies were affected more than any other group in the U.S. during The Great Depression because not only did they suffer the economic problems of no money or jobs, but they also had to deal with dust storms and moving across the country. When the stock market crashed in 1929, the price of corn and wheat dropped so low, that it was no longer profitable to grow.
The Roaring 20s brought a lot of daily excitement and change as United States saw new developments in industry. The stock market was high and all seemed well. America was changing drastically in a good way but little did they know one event would change millions of lives for the worse. While everything seemed amazing to the unknowing eye, the change in economy, government, and social life had a lot of bad moments.
The 1920s carried much change in society. Some of these changes were more rights for women, jazz music, and prohibition. The people of the 1920s were disillusioned by society lacking in idealism and vision, sense of personal alienation, and Americans were obsessed with materialism and outmoded moral values (The Roaring Twenties).Cultural changes were strongly influenced by the destruction of World War I ending 1918. America needed to recover and with it youth rebelled against the norms of the older generations.
The 1920s in America, also known as the Roaring Twenties, was a time of political, social, economic, technological, and cultural developments. These developments created new changes and helped shape the ways of life of the American people. Women played a significant example in social changes. From improvements in the education system, to minor developments such as the changes in attire. Another major development was economic production.