1. After WW1
Casualties were
Population percentage of Australia dead: 1.38%
Ottoman Empire: 13.72%
Germany: 3.82%
Total Casualties: 37,000,000 +
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2. Post WW1Events
• Treaty of Versailles
• Harlem Renaissance
• Lost Generation Writers
• Women’s Movement
• Organised Crime
• Mass Media: Radio, Movies, Ads
• Automobile is widespread
• Late Cubism, Surrealism and Art Deco
• Flappers and Dancing
• 1920’s Slang Words
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3. Your Assignment
• Create a two page PPT that uses two primary
documents about an element listed previously.
• Please name the source of the document at the
bottom, whether it is a photo, painting, song,
transcript, letter, film footage advertisement.
• You will briefly present your findings to the class.
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4. Part 2
•The Great
depression
•Fascist Solution
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5. How did the Roaring 20’s lead to a
global financial collapse?
1. Stock Market Crash of 1929 in America
Many believe erroneously that the stock market crash that occurred on Black
Tuesday, October 29, 1929, is one and the same with the Great Depression. In fact, it
was one of the major causes that led to the Great Depression. Two months after the
original crash in October, stockholders had lost more than $40 billion dollars. Even
though the stock market began to regain some of its losses, by the end of 1930, it just
was not enough and America truly entered what is called the Great Depression.
2. Bank Failures
3. Reduction in Purchasing Across the Board
Australia was one the hardest hit countries due to our dependance on Agricultural
and Industrial exports.
Unemployment in Australia rose to a record high in 1932 of 29%
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6. Social consequences of the Great Depression:
• working class children consistently leaving school at thirteen or fourteen years old
• married women carrying a greater domestic burden: home-making was still considered a
woman's role, so even if a woman had worked all day scrubbing floors to bring in some money, her
unemployed husband would still expect her to cook dinner and keep the house in order
• jobs being easier to find for young people, but the work had little future career prospects and
many young workers were sacked by the time they turned sixteen, eighteen or twenty-one years of
age
• migrants, particularly those from Italy and southern Europe, being resented because they
worked for less wages than others despite having relatively little in the way of family or friends to
call on for help.
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8. How could such a depression help pave the way
to a Fascist Government taking over?
What does Fascism mean?
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9. Your Task...
1. Research the Great Depression in Australia
individually.
2. Write down ten facts that you feel are relevant to the
conversation about how a nation deal with an
economic down turn.
3. Discuss what you think is the best path to recovery,
what works, what doesn’t work as per Historical
records.
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