Unemployment in the 1930s
Unemployment was the great scourge of the 1930s. It brought with it poverty, and posed a problem that the government seemed completely unable to tackle.

ACTIVITY

Suggested line of enquiry (“line of enquiry” = problemstilling): How did the government try to tackle the problem of unemployment in the 1930s? What results did its policies have? What other remedies were suggested by other people, such as trade unions, and economists?

WEB RESOURCES

The 1930s in America
http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/database/subtitles.cfm
?titleID=69

The Trade Union Congress website:
http://www.unionhistory.info/timeline/1918_39_Narr_Disp
lay.php?Where=NarTitle+contains+%27Unemployment%27

The 1930s in Britain cannot be understood without knowing what was happening in the USA
http://econ161.berkeley.edu/TCEH/Slouch_Crash14.html

Time 100: J. M. Keynes
http://www.time.com/time/time100/scientist/profile/keyn
es02.html

John Maynard Keynes
http://www.econlib.org/library/Enc/bios/Keynes.html

Activities

Multiple choice:
From War to War
Web task:
Finding out (p. 236)
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The Great War
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The League of Nations
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The General Strike of 1926
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Hoo-Doo/Voodoo
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Unemployment in the 1930s
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Ernest Hemingway
Text task:
W. H. Auden
Text task:
Does It Matter?
Text task:
The Second Coming
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Word Grid: Modernism