great depression

Rail workers during the New Deal

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

• The Deal was criticized by some groups in the USA
• The Republican opponents criticized it for its high cost of implementation which strained the taxpayers
• Industrialists were opposed to […]
  

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 […]
  

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 […]
  

People standing outside a soup kitchen during the Great Depression

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

• There was a high rate of unemployment in the USA
• Most city workers began to survive on soup and bread given by charity
• Farmers […]
  

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 […]