Crisis – 1929 - 1946
TIMELINE of the
great depression / wwII generation
TIMELINE AND COMMENTARIES @ $3.00
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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