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1929 - 1946 CRISIS AND CRUCIBLE

Crisis – 1929 - 1946
TIMELINE of the
great depression  / wwII  generation

TIMELINE AND COMMENTARIES @ $3.00
  • FORMAT - PDF
    • A TIMELINE OF 15 PAGES
    • 5 COMMENTARIES.  
THIS GENERATION:
“Began suddenly with Black Tuesday stock-market crash. After a three-year economic free fall, the Great Depression triggered the New Deal revolution, a vast expansion of government, and hopes for renewal of national community. After Pearl Harbor, American planned, mobilized and produced for war on a scale that made possible the massive D-Day invasion (in 1944). Two years later, the crisis mood eased with America’s surprisingly trouble-free demobilization.”[1]

COMMENTARIES INCLUDE

1930s – The Dust Bowl (The Dirty Thirties) – The Dust Bowl forced tens of thousands of poverty-stricken families to abandon their farms, unable to pay mortgages or grow crops, and losses reached US$25 million per day by 1936 (equivalent to US$440,000,000 in 2017).[6][7]

“They used to tell me I was building a dream
And so I followed the mob
When there was earth to plow or guns to bear
I was always there right on the job”

1939 – Futurama (New York’s World Fair“The World Of Tomorrow”)Futurama was an exhibit and ride at the 1939 New York World's Fair designed by Norman Bel Geddes, which presented a possible model of the world 20 years into the future (1959–1960). The installation was sponsored by the General Motors Corporation and was characterized by automated highways and vast suburbs.[5]

1946 – Ernie Pyle, David L. Brooks, The Road To Character  – “The knowledge of victory was charged with sorrow and doubt as with joy and gratitude.”

“THE WORLD WAR II GENERATION”, Gail Sheehey, New Passages - “…almost a quarter of an entire generation was growing up jobless, wondering if they could earn a living to enable them to marry and establish a home and family.”[2]



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