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ENVIRONMENTAL SYSTEMS AND SOCIETIES FOR THE IB DIPLOMA
Individuals & Societies
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IB Diploma: The
Great Depression
in the Americas
(circa 1920–1939)
At the close of
the day, the market
24 and 29 October 1929?
9 percent
had fallen
CHAPTER 1: Reasons
of its value. Altoget
by 33 points to
299.5, or
her nearly 13
hands. By compar
million shares
ison,
for the Great Depressio
n
a normal day’s
had changed
3 million.
transactions would
reads: ‘Photograph
be about
The original 1929 caption
stock market
A scene from Black Thursday.
For the
day the New York
next few days,
on Black Thursday, the
calm was restored
shows the street scene
had weathered
in the market
led to the Great Depression.’
the storm
crashed, and the day that
SOURCE C
Look closely at the
photograph in Source C.
of
Are there any indications
actual panic? Explain your
answer carefully.
breathed a sigh
The Crash
of relief.
. Everyone who
While the volume
of trading on
Monday was
previous Thursd
less than that
ay, the fall in
of the
prices was far
industrial average
more severe.
showed a drop
The Dow Jones
down to 260.
of 38 points on
the day’s trading
,
Next day, confide
nce collapsed
completely. This
the day that the
was Tuesday
stock market
29 October,
on Wall Street
fall in the ensuing
crashed
. Prices continu
days despite
an occasional
ed to
much as $30 billion
rally. In a few
had been lost.
weeks, as
as what the USA
This represented
had spent on
a sum almost
its involvement
as great
Source E gives
in the First World
some indication
War.
of the level of
losses.
SOURC
KEY TERMS
Dow Jones industri
average An index al
showing
how shares in
the top 30
large companies
have
traded on the Wall
Street
Stock Market.
EE
The fall in share
prices
Company
Share price
Share price
(3 September
1929)
American Can
a
(3 November
published in 1931. This is 181.87
1929)
by Frederick Lewis Allen,
the period and
Extract from Only Yesterday
Anaconda of
journalist
86.00
Copper
in the USA by a leading
131.50
classic account of the 1920s
times.
General Motors
70.00
has been republished many
stampede to get out from 72.50
suddenMontgom
36.00
crumbled, there was a
ery Ward
were in a
As the price structure
Exchange
Stock
the
137.86
of
floor
the
traders on
tell
Woolwo
under. By eleven o’clock
49.25
lagging
the
rthticker could
the market.’ Long before
that the100.37
telegraph
wild scramble to ‘sell at
and
Electric Share
52.25
had gone out by telephone
and Bond
in volume
what was happening, word
orders redoubled
186.75
of things and the selling
50.25
bottom was dropping out
hunters who were supposed
... Where were the bargain
be no support
... Down, down, down
Extent
seemedoftothe
Wall Street
at times like this? ... There
to come to their rescue
Evenwhich rose from the floor ofCrash
down. The roar of voices after October 1929, prices
whatsoever. Down, down,
still stood higher
any time the
a roar of panic.
previous year.
than they
the Exchange had become
SOURCE D
What are the advantages
and disadvantages of using
descriptive sources like
Source D to understand
what happened during the
Wall Street Crash?
KEY TERM
Ticker Ticker-tape on
which stocks and shares
transactions were recorded.
ACTIVITY 5
Perspectives
Look at Source
E. Which
company saw the
biggest
fall? What might
be the
effect of share
price falls
such as this?
had done at
What had been
spectacular gains
wiped out were
of the first nine
the
months of 1929.
that lasting damag
Experts did not
e had been done.
believe
Harvard Econom
On 26 Octobe
r, for example,
ic Society felt
the
that the fall in
and would not
prices would
cause any econom
be temporary
ic depress
plunge until
ion. Prices did
1932, when it
D are different.
not really
was clear that
C and
in Sources to
continu
the Great Depres
e into the long
1 Explain why the perspectives
sion was going
of source, term and recover
as type
hadsuch
continu
y was not, as
on each source,
ed to insist,
you
helparound
President Hoover
this shouldjust
2 Note down any comments
example, Doing
the corner. On
was created, provenance.
the New York
8 June 1932, for
environment in which it
Times Index closed
in November
are different.
at 58.46.
to see why the perspectives
1929, less than
a month after
It had stood at
164.43
the Wall Street
Crash.
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