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6 | (17) |
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2 Causes of the Great Depression in the Americas |
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23 | (52) |
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2.1 What were the political and economic causes of the Great Depression in the US? |
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27 | (14) |
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2.2 What was the Wall Street Crash and why was it so important? |
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41 | (6) |
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2.3 Who was most responsible for the Great Depression? |
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47 | (15) |
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2.4 What were the political and economic causes of the Great Depression in Latin America? |
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62 | (6) |
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2.5 What were the political and economic causes of the Great Depression in Canada? |
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68 | (7) |
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3 The US and the First New Deal |
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75 | (41) |
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3.1 What was the impact of the Great Depression on the United States? |
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77 | (7) |
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3.2 How effectively did Hoover deal with the problems caused by the Depression? |
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84 | (10) |
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3.3 How effective was the First New Deal in solving the problems caused by the Depression? |
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94 | (13) |
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3.4 What was the significance of Roosevelt's First Hundred Days? |
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107 | (9) |
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4 Opposition, criticism and the Second and Third New Deals |
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116 | (28) |
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4.1 Why was there opposition to the New Deals? |
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118 | (1) |
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4.2 Who opposed the New Deals? |
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119 | (7) |
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4.3 Did the New Deal benefit everyone? |
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126 | (1) |
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4.4 What was the impact of the criticism? |
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127 | (2) |
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4.5 How successful was the Second New Deal? |
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129 | (6) |
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4.6 Was there a Third New Deal? |
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135 | (9) |
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5 The nature and efficacy of solutions in Canada |
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144 | (41) |
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5.1 What was the impact of the Great Depression on Canada? |
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147 | (9) |
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5.2 Why did Mackenzie King and the Liberals lose the 1930 election? |
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156 | (3) |
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5.3 How successfully did the Conservative government of R. B. Bennett deal with the problems caused by the Depression? |
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159 | (11) |
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5.4 How successful were provincial responses to the problems caused by the Depression? |
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170 | (7) |
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5.5 How far did the Mackenzie King government of 1935 solve the problems caused by the Depression? |
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177 | (8) |
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6 Latin American responses to the Depression |
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185 | (39) |
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6.1 What was the economic situation in Latin America by 1930? |
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188 | (7) |
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6.2 How and with what success did Vargas attempt to deal with the effects of the Great Depression in Brazil? |
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195 | (16) |
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6.3 What was Import Substitution Industrialisation (ISI) and how successful was it? |
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211 | (13) |
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7 The impact of the Great Depression on US society |
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224 | (41) |
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7.1 What was the position of African Americans and other minority groups in the US in the late 1920s? |
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226 | (8) |
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7.2 What was the impact of the Depression on African Americans and other minority groups within the US? |
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234 | (14) |
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7.3 To what extent did the Depression change the position of women in the US? |
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248 | (17) |
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8 The Great Depression and the arts in the US |
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265 | (34) |
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8.1 How did the Depression affect the development of photography? |
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268 | (9) |
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8.2 How did the Depression influence the development of the film industry? |
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277 | (7) |
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8.3 How were literature and drama affected by the Depression? |
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284 | (4) |
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8.4 How did the Depression influence the development of the radio industry? |
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288 | (11) |
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299 | (19) |
| Bibliography |
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318 | (2) |
| Index |
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320 | (9) |
| Acknowledgements |
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