Download Year 8 Autumn 2 Assessment Revision Where was it better to live in

Year 8 Autumn 2 Assessment
Revision
Where was it better to live in
the 1930s? USA, USSR or
Germany?
Your task…
• Your assessment is asking you to compare life
for people living in USA, USSR and Germany in
the 1930s.
• You have to use your own knowledge and
information from this to help you to revise.
• You need to be aware of the key features of
life in each of these countries- be able to
explain ‘how’ this shows life was good or not.
• You also need to come to a conclusion- where
was it better to live in the 1930s? USA, USSR
or Nazi Germany?
What does this reveal about life in USA
during the 1930s?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k7va0cgYs7o
As we go through the
next few slides create a
mind map of what life
was like during the 1930s
in USA.
America had been riding high in the 1920s, the
decade many called ‘roaring’. But the wall street crash
in 1929 bought a period of depression and extreme
poverty to the American people. The consequences
for many Americans were tragic. The 1930s were
known as the depression years.
What impact did the wall street crash and
depression have on the American people?
Record as many facts as possible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VpKmfjf5tUk
All the time, Hoover told people that ‘prosperity
was just around the corner.’
But
• In 1929, 659 banks failed, in 1930 a further
1,352 collapsed. In 1931 another 2,294
• Wages fell by 60%
• 1933, 14 million were unemployed
• In 1931, in New York alone 238 people were
admitted to hospital for malnutrition.
• Agriculture suffered the most- a fifth of all
farmers lost their farms
• 250,000 people lost their homes
• 1932, 20,000 companies went out of business
Many couldn’t afford to pay their mortgages so left
their homes. They set up shanty towns called
Hoovervilles.
Riding the Rail Roads
Many American just up and left, they travelled the
rail roads in search of jobs. They became known as
transients.
The Depression reaches crisis
point
After two years of depression where Hoover had failed to
help the American people, groups gathered together to
protest. Things started to turn violent when angry farmers
used guns and pitchforks to attack government officials that
tried to evict them.
The Bonus Army
The biggest protest took place in Washington in the
summer of 1932. It got so bad that the President
barricaded himself in a cupboard in the Whitehouse.
In 1932, 25,000 ex soldiers who had fought in WW1 went to
Washington to ask the government for help. They asked to
be paid their war pensions early- they were entitled to a
$500 bonus. Hoover refused. They set up a Hooverville just
outside of the Whitehouse. After a few days, Hoover called
in the troops. Two protestors and a baby were killed in the
battle that followed.
You can
protest about
conditions and
things will
change
At least they
have a
democracythey can get rid
of their leader!
Can you think of any
positives about living in
the USA?
They have a lot
of natural
resources
There is always hope
that life will improvepeople have achieved
the American Dreamso could they!
The
government
creates job
schemes where
people could be
employed in
exchange for
health care
and food
Compare…
• What was it like to live in Communist
Russia (Soviet Union, USSR)?
How do these two accounts
of Communist Russia
differ? Which one do you
believe more? Why?
What about life in Nazi
Germany?
How does that
compare?
Nazi Germany- 1930s Germany
• For ordinary people, life was good, and
many Germans even today look back and
remember the years before 1939 as happy
years:
– law and order (few people locked their doors)
– autobahns improved transport
– frequent ceremonies, rallies, colour and
excitement
– Nazi propaganda gave people hope
– Full employment
Problems…
• Wages fell, and strikers could
be shot - the Nazis worked
closely with the businessmen
to make sure that the
workforce were as controlled
as possible.
• Loss of personal freedoms (e.g.
freedom of speech).
• All culture had to be German e.g. music had to be Beethoven
or Wagner or German folk
songs
Women…
• The Nazis were very male-dominated and
anti-feminist. Nazi philosophy idealised
the role of women as child-bearer and
creator of the family
• Mothers who had more than 8 children
were given a gold medal.
• But not all women were happy with the
Nazi regime:
• Job-discrimination against women was
encouraged. Women doctors, teachers and
civil servants were forced to give up their
careers.
• Women were never allowed to serve in the
armed forces - even during the war.
The Young…
• Most German young people were
happy:
• Nazi culture was very youthoriented.
• The Hitler Youth provided exciting
activities for young boys.
• The Hitler Youth and the League of
German Maidens treated young men
and women as though they were
special, and told then they had knew
more then their parents.
• Many parents were frightened that
their children would report them to
the Gestapo, which gave young
people a power that they enjoyed.
However, not all young people
were happy…
• Towards the end of the war,
youth gangs such as the
Eidelweiss Pirates grew up,
rejecting the Hitler Youth and
Nazi youth culture, drinking and
dancing to American jazz and
'swing' music.
• In Cologne in 1944 they
sheltered army deserters and
even attacked the Gestapo.
• If they were caught, they were
hanged