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#13 Young Girl During The Great Depression, 1930s. Image credits: Old-time Photos #14 Men In Harlem Gather In Front Of A Shop To Listen To The Radio, 1940. Image credits: Old-time Photos
Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? is a 1975 documentary film directed by Philippe Mora, [4] consisting largely of newsreel footage and contemporary film clips [5] to portray the era of the Great Depression.
Hunger marches to London had previously taken place in 1922–23, 1929 [2] and 1930, [3] and 1927 had seen a South Wales miners' march. [4] Due to the Great Depression and mass unemployment, throughout 1932 there was a profound atmosphere of unrest across Britain with "high tension across the country", "running battles between police and demonstrators" and "violent clashes ... between the ...
The Great Depression of 1929–32 broke out at a time when the United Kingdom was still far from having recovered from the effects of the First World War. Economist Lee Ohanian showed that economic output fell by 25% between 1918 and 1921 and did not recover until the end of the Great Depression, [3] arguing that the United Kingdom suffered a twenty-year great depression beginning in 1918.
The Great Depression was the worst economic crisis in US history. More than 15 million Americans were left jobless and unemployment reached 25%. 25 vintage photos show how desperate and desolate ...
1930s in British cinema (1 C, ... Great Depression in the United Kingdom; I. ... Men's Dress Reform Party; N. National Government (1931)
The lessons of the generation that weathered the Great Depression include self-sufficiency, frugality, and improvisation. ... a surprising number of lessons from the hardships of the 1930s endure ...
The term "The Great Depression" is most frequently attributed to British economist Lionel Robbins, whose 1934 book The Great Depression is credited with formalizing the phrase, [230] though Hoover is widely credited with popularizing the term, [230] [231] informally referring to the downturn as a depression, with such uses as "Economic ...