https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa 2017-2018 IB History en-us 2018-04-04 13:41:40 UTC 2018-04-06 06:56:15 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/icons/Condos.png gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248495344 - economic growth and political conservatism
- businessmen are kings; Titans of wall street
-speculation (buying on margin) and extension of creditl where people were buying stocks and bonds for quick profit, but they only payed for a small percentage of stock prices as a down payment and borrowed 
-Federal reserve didn't interfere (jobs were to regulate commercial banks)
- if bank made bad investments, then life savings and money was gone
- car sales, steel production, and construction declined 
- decline in European exports because they depended on loans to receive help from US after WWII]]> 2018-04-04 13:57:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248495344 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248504820 2018-04-04 14:14:08 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248504820 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248505114 -income disparity 
-construction declined by 20%
-market for US products in Europe declined
-unstable underlying economic foundation 
-president hoover believed in minimum government involvement in business
-federal reserve monetary policy decreased money supply; mistaking deflation for inflation
-Fiscal policy protectionist (Hawley-Smoot tariff act of 1930)
-reconstruction finance corporation allowed questionable loans]]> 2018-04-04 14:14:43 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248505114 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248869537 -public persona was as important as his programs; fireside chats
-new coalition lasted until 1960's
-WWII pulled US out of Great Depression
-court didnt rule in his favor, so court packing scheme created; named 6 new judges
-court favored federal involvement in the economy]]> 2018-04-05 13:46:39 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248869537 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248870100 -emergency banking act (FED additional powers; off the gold standard)
-economy act (balancing act)
-agricultural adjustment agency (raise farm prices; subsidies) 
-glass-steagall banking act (prevents banks from underwriting securities and established the FDIC)
-national recovery act of 1933 (established minimum wage, wage hours, prevented child labor; industrial production rose 22%)
-federal emergency relief agency (loans to states for jobs; est. Civil Works Administration; declared unconstitutional by SCOTUS in 1935)
-other agencies created: Tennessee valley authority; SEC; public works administration; civilian conservation corps; FCC; civil aeronautics authority; federal housing authority (success of agencies debated; waste and fraud; expansion of federal government)]]> 2018-04-05 13:47:55 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248870100 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248873796 -conservatives opposed new deal initiatives 
-townsend, coughlin, and long led the political animosity ]]> 2018-04-05 13:55:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248873796 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248874669 2018-04-05 13:57:36 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248874669 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248875111 2018-04-05 13:58:30 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248875111 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248876016 2018-04-05 14:00:19 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248876016 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248876426 2018-04-05 14:01:12 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248876426 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248887344 -conscription issue of 1917 fragmented Canada (english vs. french speaking)
-William Lyon Mackenzie King leads 
-remarkable surge in non-traditional parties (national progressive party; Manitoba and prairie independence; united farmers of Ontario)
-split between moderate and radical progressives 
-innovative party Cooperative commonwealth federation sought reform, not revolution
-social credit increased consumer spending by issuing credits $25/mo to citizens
-union nationale was french conservative party that aimed at any entity promoting communism
-communist party of Canada centralized control by Stalin in Comintern]]> 2018-04-05 14:22:20 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248887344 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248888516 -economic growth in US dragged Canada out of powstar slump
-demand for Canada mining resources plus pulp and paper 
-auto was stimulus to Canada economy
-imports fell by 25%; exports fell by 55% 
-wheat prices decreased by 75%; unemployment 27%; 20% Canadians needed gov. relief
-exacerbated by misguided economic policies worldwide
-praire provinces hid due to ecological issues
-urban workers saw wages slashed and more unemployment
-Bennet increased tariffs 50% and allocated $20MM in relief projects (Canadian Wheat Board, Bank of Canada, Bennett's New Deal)]]> 2018-04-05 14:24:53 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/248888516 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249108692 -increased worldwide tariffs decreased trade
-supply of commodities worldwide exceeded demand
-over-dependence on staple goods
-over-dependence on US economy
-heavy debt burden by governments and individuals ]]> 2018-04-06 04:28:09 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249108692 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249109377 -family farm suffered along with rest of economy
-long-term unemployment affected people's self-esteem
-call to moral rebirth 
-gave life to Social Gospel Movement
-growing importance of radio and music
-Canadian approach to aesthetic representation- Group of Seven
-significant pieces of literature- W.O. Mitchell and Max Braithwaite
-hockey appreciated
-NHL dominant professional team]]> 2018-04-06 04:34:24 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249109377 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249110920 2018-04-06 04:52:25 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249110920 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249110989 2018-04-06 04:53:21 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249110989 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249112582 -slow on manufacturing and had to rely on imports 
-cientificos (mexican economic liberals) promoted incentives for overseas investment (mining and railroads)
-supply of good were outstripping demand - leads to depression
-less inflow of capital 
-protectionist measures by other countries made LA goods unaffordable
-government set prices and established production levels
-import substitution industrialization (promote home grown industries to replace imported goods)
-bilateral trade agreements with industrialized countries
-all countries increased production
-imports increased by 75%
-Brazilians began to invest in industries they previously imported
-steel, iron, aircraft, truck engine production
-transportation growth area (air ministry)
-ISI successful in Brazil
-economic growth not spread easily
-coffee was very much relied on
- imbalance of trade in Argentina
-Argentina recovered quickly when export industries were protected and ISI
-ISI dominant economic policy until '60s
-depression accelerated industry and decreased its independence on British markets]]> 2018-04-06 05:15:44 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249112582 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249113269 -Military took power in Argentina, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, and Peru
-Argentina went from a democracy to a dictatorship
-UK dominated Argentina economy (beef exports)
-economy more diversified and domestic
-regimes and dictatorships directed and controlled economies 
-traditional agricultural products continued to dominate economies
-new urban elite evolved from ISI
-political systems shifted to authoritarianism]]> 2018-04-06 05:19:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249113269 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249114436 2018-04-06 05:32:56 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249114436 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249115535 -first to be laid off from their jobs
-suffered from unemployment rate 2-3 times that of whites 
-they received substantially less aid than whites in public assistance programs 
-St. Louis Urban League launched national “jobs for Negroes” movement; boycotted chain stored with black customers but white employees 
-efforts to unify organizations and youth groups led to founding of National Negro Congress (1936) and Southern Negro Youth Congress (1937)
-ignored by the Republicans, black voters drifted to the Democratic 
-low-cost public housing made available to black families 
-National Youth Administration and civilian conservation corps enabled youths to continue education; works progress administration gave jobs; federal writers project supported work of black authors
-congress of industrial organization organized large numbers of black workers into labour unions
-secured more jobs at better wages in a greater range of occupations than before during war
-serious housing shortages and job competition led to increased tension between blacks and whites; race riots broke out
-proportion of black soldiers overseas were in service units
-combat troops remained segregated; in war army introduced integrated officer training
-during Korean war, blacks for first time fought with whites in fully integrated units]]> 2018-04-06 05:45:04 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249115535 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249116194 2018-04-06 05:54:34 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249116194 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249116228 2018-04-06 05:55:00 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249116228 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249116240 -employers lowered pay scales for women workers
-approximately 10.5 million women worked outside home; 1940, approximately 13 million women worked for wages outside home
-laws made it illegal for more than one person per family to find employment within federal civil service
-Civilian Conservation Corps formal policy against hiring women
-Federal Emergency Relief Administration for young women taught household skills; work relief projects employed in producing such goods as canned foods, clothes, and mattresses for distribution to needy 
-employed as housekeeping aides to families in need of household help
-agencies paid women much less than men or gave preferences to male job seekers 
-employers preferred white men, and then white women, over black or Hispanic women
-most African-American women found themselves left out of new laws passed to ensure worker safety
-women in professional careers lost gains made in earlier, more stable periods
-fewer women found positions in business in the Great Depression than in the 1920s
-losing ground in traditional male sphere; men entered jobs heretofore relegated to women
-relations between husbands and wives strained bc of financial insecurity
-groups supported women's rights: radical National Women's Party, educational body, the League of Women Voters
-while men had unemployment, women maintained employment or took new paid labor to support their families]]> 2018-04-06 05:55:17 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249116240 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249119567 2018-04-06 06:27:07 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249119567 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249119657 2018-04-06 06:27:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249119657 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249120491 -new forms and methods were explored, transformative cultural institutions were founded, and artists self-consciously sought to reach broader layers of the public
-popularization of the radio, changed how accessible culture was and to whom; international break from formalism and modernism worked to produce a popularized tendency in US art
-Washington State hosted innovative theatre, musical, and performing arts work, with sometimes global resonance
-emblematic cultural institution of Washington State, the Seattle Art Museum, was created; privately funded during darkest days of the economic crisis, when tens of thousands were losing jobs and homes
-UW architect hired to design a museum sited in Volunteer Park and pledged much of their personal art collection to the city; houses Seattle Asian Art Museum
-not everyone suffered or even lost money during Depression 
-philanthropy accelerated in 1930s, as those who retained wealth gave to charities to aid the unfortunate; others gave to arts to rescue cultural institutions that struggled amidst the economic decline
-philanthropy was the new role that government funds and government programs would play after 1933
-art was deemed worthy of public support, and New Deal federal dollars enabled explosion of artistic endeavors, from painting, music, theatre, and architecture]]> 2018-04-06 06:32:45 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249120491 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249121902 2018-04-06 06:41:54 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249121902 gtorres4600 https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249122304 2018-04-06 06:43:37 UTC https://padlet.com/gtorres4600/4wyw583pikxa/wish/249122304