3.2.1. Summary

3 Things I Learned

1. The years leading up to The Great Depression were known as The Age of Uncertainty.
2. Jazz became big in the 1920's.
3. Albert Einstein was considered "slow."

2 Things I Found Interesting

1. Artists looked to scientist such as Sigmund Freud, for new art ideas, such as surrealism.
2. The Stock Market Crash, although it did play a good part in the Great Depression, was not the only or main reason for the Depression.

1 Question I Still Have

1. What was the greatest cause of the Great Depression?
   

Spotlight on....

Spotlight on: the Stock Market Crash

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On September 3, 1929, the Dow Jones Industrial average reached a record high of 381.2. At the end of the day on October 24, 1929, the market fell to 299.5. This was a 9 percent decline from the high. This day became known as "Black Tuesday" or "Black Thursday." There is controversy on whether these events happened on a Tuesday or a Thursday. At the sight of this, there was a selling panic. By November 19, 1929 the market had fallen to 199. By the time the crash was completed in 1932, following the Great Depression, stocks had lost nearly 90 percent of their value.
http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/stockcrash1929.htm

http://www.sodahead.com/united-states/do-you-compare-timothy-james-mcveighs-attack-to-joseph-andrew-stacks-attack/question-875785/?page=4

The crash helped to bring the country into the depression and keep stocks at their all time lows.

www.thewe.cc/contents/more/archive/us_debt.html

Did you know...
The largest losses to the market did not come in October 1929, but rather in the following two years?

http://www.presidentialtimeline.org/html/educators/HCH/stockmarket_kac/

United States Events

The Great Depression

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/07/04/0426_dow/source/3.htm

The Great Depression was a horrific event in the United States. The Stock Market crashed, people lost their jobs, unemployment rates shot up. Farmers were overproducing, which doesn't sound so bad. However, they had competition which caused their prices and profit to go down. Without the profit the farmers could not pay the banks back. Without the money the farmers owed them, banks were forced to shut down.

Connection Across Time: The Great Depression

Today, we are in a Great Recession. Although we are not in as bad of shape as the United States was during the Great Depression, we are still in bad shape. Unemployment is shooting up and people are losing their jobs. Hopefully, Obama will be able to help us out of this rut, as FDR did.

http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/depression/about.htm

Changes in the 1920's

www.nchumanities.org/Jazznew.htm

There were many changes made during the 1920's. People began to dress differently, and listen to new music. Jazz became very popular. Women were not afraid to show a little skin. Art styles changed, artists became surrealists. It truly was an age of uncertainty because nobody knew how to feel about all these changes.

Connection Across Time: Changes

Styles change everyday. People listen to country while others are listening to rap and R&B. Some girls dress in short skirts, while others like to keep their bodies covered. Some guys where there pants half down, while others like to be more appropriate. Things didn't only change back then but they are changing more and more everyday.

People in the News at this Time

George Frost was in the news in 1922. He was eighteen years old at the time, and president of the Land High School Radio Club. Frost fitted the first automobile radio to the passenger door of a Ford Model T.

Irving Langmuir was a chemist with the General Electric Research Laboratory. In 1927, he invented atomic hydrogen welding. This made it possible to weld stainless steel, which could not be joined by older welding methods.

http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1G2-3468301016.html

Franklin D. Roosevelt was in the news at this time. He was the president and he was trying to get the United States out of the Great Depression. He set up the New Deal, which did in fact help.

http://www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/roosevelt-franklin.htm

Artwork of the Time

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This is a piece painted by Thomas Hart Benton. It is called "Threshing Wheat." All of Benton's paintings demonstrate the movement towards realism in the 1920's, which is how it relates to this chapter.

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This piece was painted by Charles Sheeler. It is called "Steam Turbine." This relates to the chapter because his paintings perfected a method of achieving photographic quality with paint, which relates to the new artistic styles.

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This piece was painted by Ben Shahn in 1933. It is called "Parade for Repeal." This goes with the Great Depression and how people just wanted things to go back to the way they were before the depression. They wanted to get rid of the extra tariffs and the high unemployment. This is a representation of that.

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This piece was painted by John Steuart Curry in 1931. It is called "Spring Shower." This relates to the chapter because it is an imaginative land where the world is at peace. At this time the Great Depression was happening, and things were most definitely not peaceful. This was like a dreamland for people who were living back then.

Introduction

This blog will be about Chapter 15. The title is Chapter 15.

Chapter 15 is about advances in science, technology, art, and music. It is also about the hardships people faced during this time such as the Great Depression. It is also about the Age of Crisis.

The main thing I would like to accomplish through this blog is to show people how hard it was to live back then and show them how we got where we are today. I also would like to show people what it was like for people who were living under the control of Mussolini and Hitler.