Great Depression - Great Depression The Great Depression is the period of history that followed "Black Thursday", the stock market crash of Thursday, October 24, 1929 (the actual panic did not begin in earnest until Black Tuesday on October 29). The events in the United States triggered a world-wide depression, which led to deflation and a great increase in unemployment. On the global scale, the market crash in the US was a final straw in an already shaky world economic situation. Germany was suffering from hyperinflation of currency, and many of the Allied victors of World War I were having serious problems paying off huge war debts. In the late 1920s the American economy at first seemed immune to the mounting troubles, but with the start of the 1930s.
Great Depression in the United Kingdom - Great Depression in the United Kingdom This article deals with the effects of the Great Depression of the 1930s on the United Kingdom. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Background 2 The Gold Standard 3 Economic Crisis and the Labour government 1929-1931 4 The National Government 4.1 Emergency measures 5 Britain in the 1930s: a nation divided 5.2 The South and the Midlands 5.3 The north and other industrial areas 6 The welfare state during the 1930s 7 Slow recovery 8 Rearmament and recovery 9 Consequences of the great depression Background The World Depression of 1929-33 broke at a time when the United Kingdom was still far from having recovered from the effects of the First World War more than a decade earlier. A major cause of.
Great Plains - Great Plains The Great Plains or High Plains are the elevated plains which lie east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States of America, covering the states of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota and the Canadian provinces of Saskatchewan and Alberta. The region is arid and generally characterized by rangeland or marginal farmland. Generally it lies west of the 100th meridian, which roughly corresponds with the line west of which there is 20 inches of rainfall a year or less. About every 25 years the region is subject to drought and may be subject to devastating duststorms. The region roughly centered on the Oklahoma Panhandle, including southeastern Colorado, southwestern Kansas, the Texas Panhandle, and extreme northeastern.
Great Ocean Road - Great Ocean Road Main Gate at ??? The Great Ocean Road stretches along the South Eastern coast of Australia between the Victorian cities of Geelong and Warrnambool. It was built during the Great Depression, between World War I and World War II by returned servicemen as part of a government-funded job creation acheme. Hugging tightly to the coast, the road offers outstanding views of Bass Strait and the Southern Ocean and covers some of the most photogenic coastline in the world, because of its striking and dramatic natural rock formations. These formations include Loch Ard Gorge, the Grotto, London Bridge (renamed to London Arch in recent years after the 'bridge' partially collapsed), and most famously The Twelve Apostles. A visitors centre has recently been built near.
Great Sandy Desert - Great Sandy Desert This article is about the Australian desert. There is another desert called Great Sandy Desert in Oregon, US. The Great Sandy Desert is a 360 000 km˛ expanse in northwestern Australia. This vast region of Western Australia is sparsely populated, without significant settlements. The Great Sandy Desert is a flat area between the rocky ranges of the Pilbara and the Kimberley. To the southeast is the Gibson Desert. Only on the coast are there isolated sheep stations; the remainder of the region is largely uninhabited. The underlying Canning Basin has similar geology to, and is now thought to contain oil reserves to rival, the Al Gawar fields of Saudi Arabia. Very little drilling has taken place. Oil shows over 40-50 meter sections have.
Great Western Railway - Great Western Railway The Great Western Railway (GWR) was a British railway company, linking South West England and South Wales with London. It was founded in 1833, kept its identity through the 1923 grouping, and became part of British Railways at nationalisation in 1948. Known to some as God's Wonderful Railway, it gained great fame as the "Holiday Railway", taking huge numbers of people to resorts in the South-West. The company's livery was dark green locomotives with chocolate and cream carriages. The Company was founded at a public meeting in Bristol in 1833. Isambard Kingdom Brunel was appointed as engineer at the age of 27, and made two controversial decisions: to use a broad gauge of seven feet (actually 7ft 0.25in or 2140mm) for the track,.
Greater Sudbury, Ontario - revealed high concentrations of Nickel-Copper ore at Murray Mine. The community, renamed Sudbury in honour of the CPR commissioner's wife's hometown in England, grew rapidly as a mining town. Through the decades that followed, Sudbury's economy went through boom and bust cycles as world demand for nickel rose and fell. Demand was high during the First World War, then bottomed out when the war ended. It rose again in the mid-1920s, then fell as the Great Depression hit, and rose again during the Second World War. After the end of that war, however, Sudbury was in a good position to supply nickel to the United States government, who chose to stockpile non-Soviet supplies during the Cold War. In the 1950s and 60s, Sudbury was beset by extensive labour unrest, as INCO.
Great Migration - Great Migration The Great Migration is a term used to describe the mass migration of African Americans from the southern United States to the industrial centers of the Northeast and Midwest between the 1910s and 1940s. The Great Migration also initiated the change from a primarily rural to a predominantly urban lifestyle for African Americans. The routes north came to be known as the "chicken bone express," because of the supposed litter left by the migrants from their lunches by the side of the road as they moved. There are several factors that contributed to this major movement of people within the United States, based on ecology, economics, and racism. They can also be categorized as push and pull factors: A boll weevil infestation of the.
Economic history of Great Britain - Economic history of Great Britain Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 British expansion and Empire 2 The Age of Mercantilism 3 The First Industrial Revolution, Free Trade, and the decline of Mercantilism 4 The Second Industrial Revolution 5 Foreign investment 6 Breakdown of Pax Britannica and New Imperialism 7 Britain and the Colonization of Africa, Imperialism in Asia 8 20th Century British expansion and Empire Begun initially to support William the Conqueror's (c. 1029-1087) holdings in France, Britain's policy of active involvement in continental European affairs endured for several hundred years. By the end of the 14th century, foreign trade, originally based on wool exports to Europe, had emerged as a cornerstone of national policy. The foundations of sea power were gradually laid to protect English trade and open.
Depression - Depression The word depression can mean: the medical condition Clinical depression an economic depression, also known as a recession The Great Depression, a particular instance of an economic recession a condition in meteorology also called a cyclone This is a disambiguation page; that is, one that just points to other pages that might otherwise have the same name. If you followed a link here, you might want to go back and fix that link to point to the appropriate specific page.\n.
Karl Guthe Jansky - far from our solar system (sidereal day). He eventually figured out that the radiation was coming from the Milky Way and was strongest in the direction of the center of our Milky Way galaxy, in the constellation of Sagittarius. The discovery was widely publicized, appearing in the New York Times of May 5, 1933. Jansky wanted to follow up on this discovery and investigate the radio waves from the Milky Way Galaxy in more detail. He proposed to Bell Labs to build a 30 meter diameter dish antenna. But Bell Labs had the answer they wanted about static: the static was not a problem for transatlantic radio communication. Jansky was assigned to another project and did no more radio astronomy. Many scientists were fascinated by Jansky's discovery, but no one followed.
Keynesian economics - conflicts with the conclusion of neoclassical economics, known as Say's law, that adjustment in prices and interest rates would tend to produce full employment in the economy. Historical background Keynes developed these ideas in response to debate about the British economy that had started even before the Great Depression began in 1929. The nation had not achieved full employment since the end of World War I, as the neoclassical theory (referred to as 'Classical' by Keynes) suggested that it should have. In the neoclassical theory, departures from full employment were generally seen as short-term aberrations, but during this period mass unemployment had become a persistent phenomenon in several economies across the world. Some neoclassical economists might argue that Britain's implementation of minimum wage laws in 1909 and the artificial monetary effects.
Kingdom of Romania - evolved from a "personal union" of two principalities (Moldavia and Wallachia) under a single prince to a full-fledged kingdom with a Hohenzollern monarchy. After the defeat of the great empires of Central and Eastern Europe in World War I, "Greater Romania" added Transylvania, Bessarabia and Bukovina. However, "Greater Romania" was not to survive World War II. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Unification and monarchy 1.1 Timeline 2 The interbellum years 2.2 Timeline Unification and monarchy The 1859 ascendancy of Alexander John Cuza as prince of both Moldavia and Wallachia under the nominal suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire united an identifiably Romanian nation under a single ruler. In 1862 the two principalities were formally united to form Romania, with Bucharest as its capital. On February 23, 1866 a so-called Monstrous coalition, composed.
Ku Klux Klan - organizations at the time. It differed from the first Klan; the first Klan was Democrat and Southern; this Klan was Republican and Midwestern, and had major political influence on the Republicans in several Midwestern states. It collapsed largely as a result of a scandal involving David Stephenson, the Grand Dragon of Indiana, who was convicted of rape and murder in a sensational trial. After World War II, there was a revival of several Ku Klux Klan organizations which were established to counter the Civil rights movement of the 1960s. This is the Klan that is still seen today, though as American society has become more racially tolerant the Klan has once more shrunk dramatically and fractured. The major factions currently include the Imperial Klans of America, the American Knights of the.
Kuniyoshi - 1861) was one of the last great masters of the Japanese woodblock print. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Biography 2 Pupils 3 Print Series 4 Further Reading 5 External Links Biography He was born in 1798, the son of a silk-dyer, originally named Yoshizo. He apparently assisted his father by designing for the business, and quite naturally found his way to the art world. He originally studied with the artist Kuninao, and some of his work came to the attention of one of the great masters of the Japanese woodblock print, Toyokuni. He was officially admitted to Toyokuni's studio in 1811, and became one of his chief pupils. He remained an apprentice until 1814, when he was given the name Kuniyoshi and set out as an independent artist. Like many others.
J. S. Woodsworth - in the centre of Winnipeg, killing one person and injuring 30, Woordsworth led the campaign of protest, and soon became involved in organising the Manitoba Independent Labour Party. In 1921 Woodsworth was elected to the House of Commons for the riding of Winnipeg North Centre. Rejecting violent revolution and any association with the new Communist Party of Canada, Woodsworth became a master of parliamentary procedure and used the House of Commons as a public platform. When the Canadian Liberal Party nearly lost the 1925 elections, Woodsworth was able to bargain his vote in the House for a promise from the Liberal government to enact an old age pension plan. Introduced in 1927, the plan is the cornerstone of Canada's social security system. When the Great Depression struck, Woodsworth and the ILP.
Japanese expansionism - Japanese expansionism With the Great Depression, Japan like some other countries turned to Fascism. While it was a unique form of the system, probably due to cultural differences, Japan parelled the western form very closely, as its Feudalism did hundreds of years earlier. Unlike Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini, though, Japan had two economic goals in developing an empire. First, as with its European counterparts, a tightly-controlled domestic military industry apparently jump started the nation's economy in the midst of the depression. Also, due to the lack of resources on Japan's home islands, in order to maintain an strong industrial sector with strong growth, raw materials such as iron, oil, and coal largely had to be imported. Most of these materials came from the United States at the.
Jacob Lawrence - Lawrence's Migration Series made him nationally famous when it was featured in a 1941 issue of Fortune Magazine. The series depicts the great move north of blacks in the Depression years. Lawrence was born in Atlantic City, New Jersey, but moved many times over the course of his life, finally settling in Seattle, Washington in 1970 to become an art professor at the University of Washington..
James J. Hill - life. After working for a while as a clerk (at which job he learnt bookkeeping), Hill settled in St. Paul, Minnesota at the age of 18. His first job at St. Paul was with a steamboat company, where he worked as a bookkeeper. His talents at this earned him a great deal of respect, and by 1860 he was working for wholesale grocers, for whom he handled freight transfers, especially dealing with railroads and steamboats. This work made him learn, by necessity, about all aspects of the freight and transportation business- and like everything else Hill tried his hand at, he was quite successful at it. During this time period, Hill began to work for himself for the first time. During the winter months when the Mississippi was frozen and steamboats.
Vere Ponsonby, 9th Earl of Bessborough - of De Beers Consolidated Mines. Communications was a hallmark of Lord Bessborough's term of office as Governor General. His installation in 1931 was the first to be broadcast nationally by radio. He inaugurated the first trans-Canadian phone system in 1932, speaking from his study at Rideau Hall to each of the Lieutenant Governors, and had a direct telephone link established between his office and that of Prime Minister R.B. Bennett. He also saw the creation of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Like his predecessors, Lord Bessborough travelled throughout Canada – voyages that helped him understand the national character. This was the era of the Great Depression and Lord Bessborough witnessed first-hand its impact on the country. While he was deeply affected by the suffering of so many people, he also admired their.
