O Level History Notes

Dusty farmland during the Great Depression and Recovery

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The United States of America (USA) 1920-1939: Failure of the New Deal

• Discrimination against blacks still continued and many remained jobless and received low wages where they got employed
• In the long run little had been done for […]
  

The Second Deal

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The United States of America (USA) 1920-1939: The Second Deal

• A Work Progress Administration was established in 1935
• It was to help with the problem of unemployment and had various projects under it namely:
  1. The Federal Writers Project to assist those with writings […]
     

People waiting outside a bank before the New Deal

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The United States of America (USA) 1920-1939: First Hundred days or the First New Deal

• The Emergency Banking Act of 1933 saw the closure of all banks for checking by the government with 5000 trusted one reopening […]
  

President Franklin Delano Roosevelt

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The United States of America (USA) 1920-1939: President Roosevelt and the Great Depression

• He defeated Hoover in the 1932 presidential elections and presented a ‘New Deal’
• The new deal had the following aims:
  1. To provide employment for the unemployed
  2. To revive the […]
     

People queueing during the Great Depression

ZIMSEC O Level History Notes: The United States of America (USA) 1920-1939: The Great Depression

• It was a period of economic crisis or collapse of the USA and other countries’ economies

Causes of the Great Depression

• The industries were producing more good than could be consumed […]