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Changes in American Values and Cultures
Amber Mascarenas
Impact on Economic PerceptionsoMajor move from capitalism to
socialism
oSocialist party had 15,000
members
oMany anti-capitalist
movements
Impact on Economic Perceptions
oFDR tried to save capitalism and
was supported by members of the
leftist party
oMove to Communism
oGrew especially during the Red
Decade
Impact of Economic Perceptions
oThe Economy
oShrank by 50% in the first 5 years of the depression
oFrom the start in August to the end of the year, 650
banks had failed
Impact of Economic PerceptionsoPresidents
oHoover
oViewed as a laissez-faire individual who did
nothing while the economy fell deeper into
the depression
Impact of Economic Perceptions
oFDR
oCredited with the New Deal
programs and the ”rescue”
from the great depression
Impact of Economic Perceptions
oThe Federal Reserve
oControlled the supply of money
oMoney plays a role in every economic
transaction
Impact of Economic PerceptionsoDeadly monetary “foes”:
o Inflation
oRising Prices
oDeflation
oFalling Prices
Rise of Government Dependence
oThe Federal and State governments were
previously responsible for their lower class
communities but now had to seek financial
assistance of their own
oNew Deal Programs
Rise of Government Dependence
oFederal Emergency Relieve Act (FERA)
o1932
oResponsible for managing effort to
distribute federal relief funds to individual
states
Rise of Government DependenceoCivilian Works Administration
(CWA)
oCreated jobs in public works
oIncluded road repair, digging
of drainage ditches and the
maintenance of local parks
Rise of Government Dependence
oPublic Works Administration (PWA)
oSimilar to CWA but with a focus on bigger
picture projects (airports)
Rise of Government Dependence
oCivilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
oTarget population was unemployed youths
oFocus was to provide jobs and stability to the
younger generation of the depression
Rise of Government DependenceoFarming during the depression
oGovernment programs helped
farmers live through the 1930’s
and changed the future of
agriculture
The Red DecadeoTerm coined by journalist and historian Eugene Lyons
to describe a period in American history in the 1930s
oCharacterized by a widespread infatuation with
communism
oParticularly Stalinism
The Red Decade
oLyons argues that American intellectuals gave
the then-Stalinist Soviet Union (Stalinism)
international goodwill and respectability that it
did not deserve
Effect on Popular CultureoWide emergence of many influential cultural
trends
oLiterature, arts, music, and cinema became
vehicles for establishing and promoting
traditions and values
Effect on Popular Culture
oNew Deal programs
were established to
support artists, writers,
musicians, and theater
professionals
Effect on Popular Culture
oPublic Works of Art Project (PWAP)
oEmployed artist to create public works of art
oArtists painted scenes depicting ordinary American
life in public buildings
oDecember 1933-June 1934
Effect on Popular Culture
oSection of Painting and Sculpture
oAimed to select high quality art to decorate
public buildings in the form of murals
oMade art accessible to all people
Effect on Popular Culture
oFederal Art Project (FAP)
oAugust 29, 1935-June 30, 1943
oReplaced PWAP
oUnder the 1935 Works Progress Administration
(WPA)
Effect on Popular Culture
oProvided funding for artists to create murals,
easel paintings, sculpture, graphic art, posters,
photography, theater design, and arts and crafts
oEstablished more than 100 community art centers
around the country
Effect on Popular CultureoMotion Picture (or Hollywood) Production Code of
1930
oGuidelines that Hollywood film studios agreed upon
under the pressure of Christian leaders who sought
to remove obscenity from the movie industry
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