Fasttrack to America's Past
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 		Pages 182 & 183 - Decade: 1930s  The Great Depression

The pictures

1.  A man who lost his job in a theater during the Great Depression.  He has found a new job working as a "sandwich board" man.  The picture hints that perhaps radio broadcasting - the new entertainment medium - helped put the theater out of business.
 
2.  Franklin Delano Roosevelt, elected president in 1932.  He tried new strategies to try to end the depression.  Although the depression lingered until World War Two began, his optimistic spirit helped pull America through the difficult times.
 
3.  A man rests easy, confident that his savings are safe.  One of FDR's first steps as president was to put the nation's banking system on a secure footing.
  
4.  An advertisement for FDR's New Deal programs of the 1930s.  FDR pushed Congress to start a variety of new federal programs designed to create jobs for unemployed people.

5.  Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party in Germany, rose to power in that country in the 1930s.  Under Hitler, Germany attacked Poland in 1939, which started World War II,

The vocabulary terms

   A glossary for the vocabulary terms can be found with the link near the top of this section's main index page.

   See the Getting Started pages at the front of the workbook for suggestions for students about highlighting, and making vocabulary index cards.








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