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1930'S America: United States
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During the 1930's, America witnessed a breakdown of the Democratic and free enterprise system as the US fell into the worst depression in history. The economic depression that beset the United States and other countries was unique in its severity and its consequences. At the depth of the depression, in 1933, one American worker in every four was out of a job. The great industrial slump continued throughout the 1930's, shaking the foundations of Western capitalism. The New Deal describes the program of US president Franklin D. Roosevelt from 1933 to 1939 of relief, recovery, and reform. These new policies aimed to solve the economic problems created by the depression of the 1930's.
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Throughout the 1930's America and other countries around the world were devastated by the Great Depression. In 1933, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt was sworn into office as President of the United States, one worker out of every four was out of a job in the United States. Technological advances of the early twentieth century eliminated more job than it had created. Roosevelt took on the job knowing that something had to be done before his fellow countrymen lost faith in the system. To restore economic balance Roosevelt introduced the "New Deal". This proposal to reconstruct the American economy was widely accepted. As part of the "New Deal" the Federal Government expanded its role and became involved in the economic and social program.
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America, Lost and Found: The Depression Decade Uses newsreels, old photographs, feature film clips, advertisements, and home movies to create a portrait of America in the 1930's. Conveys the psychological impact of the economic and social collapse that accompanied the Great Depression in the United States, how America reacted to the loss of its dreams and how these dreams were rebuilt. 1979. 59 min. Video/C 8988
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In the early 1930's, America was blessed with a heyday of small-band jazz, the likes of which it has not seen since. In ballrooms across North America, hot jazz, laced with exciting improvisation, and ballads, melancholy and blue, told stories of joy and tragedy, and provided rhythm for the feet of dancers of the two-step, the Lindy and the Swing...Ray Kamalay and his Red Hot Peppers are reminiscent of this peculiar era. With some of the finest players in the United States, they play this music with all its excitement and sentiment. They have wowwed audiences at some of the very finest venues, including Interlochen, Edinburghand the Philadelphia Folk Festival.
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