As I said before the great depression brought many
changes in society and it affected in a huge way the economy during the decade
preceding wwII.
It did not only caused economic problems, but psychological problems, that’s why many people
started to commit suicide because they thought there was no hope. Many also
decided not to marry or to have kids because they didn’t want their kids to
suffer these bad conditions of life. Also there was a loss of desire to go to
college.
Breadlines and soup kitchens provided cheep or free
meals to those people that didn’t have a work.
The Great depression left many
people without work, so they didn’t have money to pay their homes, they lost
their homes. People start to constructs “houses” from anything they found, the
group of theses houses constructed by people without money was called: Hoover-villes,
this as a direct insult to president Hoover. These houses became very popular because there
was a huge amount of people without money and without work. People didn’t have money to buy many of the other things
that they used to. The prices weren’t as they used to be, so it was hard to make
any profit at all.
People before the great depression had bad farming
techniques, this caused severe dust storms after the Great Depression from the
destroyed top soil, so people without work and without homes were forced to
leave the mid-west…huge problem right? This entire people went to the streets
trying to find a work. Thirteen million people were unemployed. Some people had
to move to other places to search for jobs, this caused the separation of many
families.
Some people had their life savings destroyed after the
great depression, some people started wishing for an authoritarian government
that could save them from this situation, but imagine all the world being in
crisis, not only the government can save them from the great depression, people
should have a little more of hope that in the future things would change,
because committing suicide or just going to the streets to ask for a job won’t
make things better.
As consequence there were raising some fascist
movements, Mussolini was already in power, and Hitler’s political base was
growing in Germany.
Fortunately this time of crisis ended with the
elections for the new president: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, he had to make many
reforms for fixing this crisis along with the people. He promised a "New Deal" in which
the government would intervene to reduce unemployment by work-creation schemes
such as painting of the post offices and street cleaning. In
general the Great Depression had bad effects on society that later would be
fixed up and most things would return as they were before, but it took time to
restore things, it’s not easy to give work to many people, it’s not easy to
give homes to many people. Nothing was easy because of the effects of the great
Depression in which almost the entire world was affected.
References:
Valerie. V
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