Disasters in the 1930s
frANKLIN D ROOSEVELT, A RETIRED PRESIDENT FROM 1933-1945, ONCE SAID, “THE NATION THAT DESTROYS ITS SOIL DESTROYS ITSELF.” THIS CERTAINLY REFERS TO THE DISASTER, THE DUST BOWL, WHICH WAS A HORRIBLE DROUGHT THAT CONSISTED OF DUST THAT SUFFOCATED PEOPLE. THE DUST BOWL WAS ALONGSIDE THE GREAT DEPRESSION, A TIME WHERE THE STOCK MARKET CRASHED AND THE WHOLE UNITED STATES WAS POOR AND JOBLESS, AND SEVERAL DISEASES SUCH AS POLIO. THEREFORE AND BECAUSE OF THESE EVENTS, IT WAS A DIFFICULT DECADE TO ENDURE.
FIRST, THE DUST BOWL WAS A HOME DESTROYING DISASTER. ACCORDING TO HISTORY.COM EDITORS IT STATES, “IT DROVE MANY FAMILIES INTO MIGRATION IN SEARCH FOR WORK AND BETTER LIVING CONDITIONS.” THIS ILLUSTRATES HOW THE DUST BOWL BROUGHT PEOPLE TO THE POINT WHERE THEY NEEDED TO LEAVE THEIR HOME. THEY DID THIS TO FIND SOMEWHERE WHERE THEY COULD LIVE AND MAKE MONEY TO SURVIVE. ALSO, ON PAGE 1 IT ASSERTS “PEOPLE AND LIVESTOCK WERE KILLED AND CROPS FAILED ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION.” HERE IT IS SHOWING THAT IN THE 1930’S PEOPLE HAD NOTHING EAT BECAUSE CROPS AND ANIMALS DIED FROM THE DUST AND SO DID THE PEOPLE. LASTLY, THE DUST BOWL MADE FARMING ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE AND CAUSED FINANCIAL RUIN. THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE STOCK MARKET CRASH SO THERE WAS NO MONEY. THEREFORE, EVERYONE WAS BASICALLY BROKE AND COULDN’T AFFORD FOOD OR GET FOOD. TO SUM UP, THE DUST BOWL WAS A HORRIBLE DISASTER IN THE 1930’S.
SECONDLY, THE GREAT DEPRESSION BROUGHT JUST ABOUT EVERYONE IN THE US INTO A POOR STATE. THE GREAT DEPRESSION HAD STARTED WITH THE STOCK MARKET CRASH AND WAS MADE MUCH WORSE FROM THE DUST BOWL IN 1930. WHEN THESE TWO DISASTERS HAPPENED THE WHOLE UNITED STATES DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO BECAUSE NO ONE HAD MONEY A SAFE HOME OR EVEN FOOD. WHICH MADE LIVING HARD BECAUSE THE ONLY SOURCE OF FOOD AND WATER WAS IN BREAD LINES WHERE EVERYONE WAITED IN A LINE FOR A LOAF OF BREAD AND WATER. IT IS STATED BY HISTORY.COM EDITORS ¨ 15 MILLION AMERICANS WERE UNEMPLOYED AND NEARLY HALF THE BANKS HAD FAILED.¨ SO JUST ABOUT EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES WAS JOBLESS AND BROKE WITHOUT MONEY. WITH EVERYONE NOT HAVING MONEY MEANT NO BUSINESS IN STORES WHICH BROUGHT ALL STORES OUT OF BUSINESS SO BUYING FOOD WASN’T EVEN AN OPTION. ALSO AFTER THE STOCK MARKET HAD CRASHED MANY PEOPLE STARTED TO PANIC WHICH WIPED OUT A LOT OF INVESTORS. IN CONCLUSION THE GREAT DEPRESSION WAS A TERRIBLE DISASTER.
IN ADDITION, DISEASES SPREAD WIDELY IN THE 1930´S SUCH AS POLIO. POLIO WAS A DISEASE THAT WOULD CRIPPLE THE HUMAN BODY INSTANTLY. THE DISEASE WAS SUCH A PROBLEM IN THE 30Ś BECAUSE AMERICA WAS ALREADY DEALING WITH A LOT. BUT NOW WE NEEDED TO PROTECT OUR KIDS FROM GETTING THIS EXTREMELY CONTAGIOUS LIFE CHANGING DISEASE. ACCORDING TO HELEN BOLTON ¨PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH GOT DUSTPHEUMONIA WHERE GRIT GOT IN THE LUNGS AND SIMULATED THIS DISEASE.¨ THIS WAS A KILLER DISEASE IN THE 1930Ś BECAUSE OF THE DUST BOWL. ALL OF THE DUST AND GRIT WOULD GET BREATHED IN BY PEOPLE AND THEY WOULD SUFFOCATE OR PUNCTURE A LUNG FROM THE SMALL ROCKS. ALSO ANOTHER DISEASE BACK THEN WOULD BE SYPHILIS. SYPHILIS WAS A TERRIBLE DISEASE THAT WOULD HAVE THE POWER TO JUST INVADE A PERSON'S BODY. IF YOU HAD THIS DISEASE YOU WOULD BE AFFECTED BY WEIGHT LOSS, HAIR LOSS, SKIN RASH,FOLLOWED BY SORES EXTREME FATIGUE, AND MANY MORE. ALL IN ALL DISEASES IN THE 1930´S WERE SOMETHING YOU DEFINITELY DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE.
IN CONCLUSION IT WAS A HARD TIME TO LIVE IN THE 1930'S BECAUSE OF THE DISASTERS. LIKE THE DUST BOWL THAT DESTROYED HOMES AND LEFT DUST EVERYWHERE. SOME PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF THE DUST FROM IT SUFFOCATING THEM, THE DUST FORCED PEOPLE TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES IN SEARCH FOR BETTER ONES. THERE WAS ALSO THE GREAT DEPRESSION, WHICH WAS AN EVENT WHERE THE STOCK MARKET HAD CRASHED. SO EVERYONE WAS LEFT WITHOUT MONEY AND WAS BANKRUPT. THE PEOPLE COULDN'T BUY FOOD CLOTHING AND TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. ALSO IN THE 1930´S THERE WAS MANY DISEASES. THE DISEASES WERE VERY FATAL BECAUSE MEDICINES AND CURES WERE SCARCE DUE TO THE LACK OF MONEY. THESE DISEASES INCLUDED POLIO AND SYPHILIS TWO TERRIBLE DISEASES TO LIVE WITH. THEREFORE THESE DISASTERS HAD MADE LIFE IN THE 1930´S VERY DIFFICULT
FIRST, THE DUST BOWL WAS A HOME DESTROYING DISASTER. ACCORDING TO HISTORY.COM EDITORS IT STATES, “IT DROVE MANY FAMILIES INTO MIGRATION IN SEARCH FOR WORK AND BETTER LIVING CONDITIONS.” THIS ILLUSTRATES HOW THE DUST BOWL BROUGHT PEOPLE TO THE POINT WHERE THEY NEEDED TO LEAVE THEIR HOME. THEY DID THIS TO FIND SOMEWHERE WHERE THEY COULD LIVE AND MAKE MONEY TO SURVIVE. ALSO, ON PAGE 1 IT ASSERTS “PEOPLE AND LIVESTOCK WERE KILLED AND CROPS FAILED ACROSS THE ENTIRE REGION.” HERE IT IS SHOWING THAT IN THE 1930’S PEOPLE HAD NOTHING EAT BECAUSE CROPS AND ANIMALS DIED FROM THE DUST AND SO DID THE PEOPLE. LASTLY, THE DUST BOWL MADE FARMING ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE AND CAUSED FINANCIAL RUIN. THIS IS BECAUSE OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE STOCK MARKET CRASH SO THERE WAS NO MONEY. THEREFORE, EVERYONE WAS BASICALLY BROKE AND COULDN’T AFFORD FOOD OR GET FOOD. TO SUM UP, THE DUST BOWL WAS A HORRIBLE DISASTER IN THE 1930’S.
SECONDLY, THE GREAT DEPRESSION BROUGHT JUST ABOUT EVERYONE IN THE US INTO A POOR STATE. THE GREAT DEPRESSION HAD STARTED WITH THE STOCK MARKET CRASH AND WAS MADE MUCH WORSE FROM THE DUST BOWL IN 1930. WHEN THESE TWO DISASTERS HAPPENED THE WHOLE UNITED STATES DIDN’T KNOW WHAT TO DO BECAUSE NO ONE HAD MONEY A SAFE HOME OR EVEN FOOD. WHICH MADE LIVING HARD BECAUSE THE ONLY SOURCE OF FOOD AND WATER WAS IN BREAD LINES WHERE EVERYONE WAITED IN A LINE FOR A LOAF OF BREAD AND WATER. IT IS STATED BY HISTORY.COM EDITORS ¨ 15 MILLION AMERICANS WERE UNEMPLOYED AND NEARLY HALF THE BANKS HAD FAILED.¨ SO JUST ABOUT EVERYONE IN THE UNITED STATES WAS JOBLESS AND BROKE WITHOUT MONEY. WITH EVERYONE NOT HAVING MONEY MEANT NO BUSINESS IN STORES WHICH BROUGHT ALL STORES OUT OF BUSINESS SO BUYING FOOD WASN’T EVEN AN OPTION. ALSO AFTER THE STOCK MARKET HAD CRASHED MANY PEOPLE STARTED TO PANIC WHICH WIPED OUT A LOT OF INVESTORS. IN CONCLUSION THE GREAT DEPRESSION WAS A TERRIBLE DISASTER.
IN ADDITION, DISEASES SPREAD WIDELY IN THE 1930´S SUCH AS POLIO. POLIO WAS A DISEASE THAT WOULD CRIPPLE THE HUMAN BODY INSTANTLY. THE DISEASE WAS SUCH A PROBLEM IN THE 30Ś BECAUSE AMERICA WAS ALREADY DEALING WITH A LOT. BUT NOW WE NEEDED TO PROTECT OUR KIDS FROM GETTING THIS EXTREMELY CONTAGIOUS LIFE CHANGING DISEASE. ACCORDING TO HELEN BOLTON ¨PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH GOT DUSTPHEUMONIA WHERE GRIT GOT IN THE LUNGS AND SIMULATED THIS DISEASE.¨ THIS WAS A KILLER DISEASE IN THE 1930Ś BECAUSE OF THE DUST BOWL. ALL OF THE DUST AND GRIT WOULD GET BREATHED IN BY PEOPLE AND THEY WOULD SUFFOCATE OR PUNCTURE A LUNG FROM THE SMALL ROCKS. ALSO ANOTHER DISEASE BACK THEN WOULD BE SYPHILIS. SYPHILIS WAS A TERRIBLE DISEASE THAT WOULD HAVE THE POWER TO JUST INVADE A PERSON'S BODY. IF YOU HAD THIS DISEASE YOU WOULD BE AFFECTED BY WEIGHT LOSS, HAIR LOSS, SKIN RASH,FOLLOWED BY SORES EXTREME FATIGUE, AND MANY MORE. ALL IN ALL DISEASES IN THE 1930´S WERE SOMETHING YOU DEFINITELY DIDN'T WANT TO HAVE.
IN CONCLUSION IT WAS A HARD TIME TO LIVE IN THE 1930'S BECAUSE OF THE DISASTERS. LIKE THE DUST BOWL THAT DESTROYED HOMES AND LEFT DUST EVERYWHERE. SOME PEOPLE DIED BECAUSE OF THE DUST FROM IT SUFFOCATING THEM, THE DUST FORCED PEOPLE TO LEAVE THEIR HOMES IN SEARCH FOR BETTER ONES. THERE WAS ALSO THE GREAT DEPRESSION, WHICH WAS AN EVENT WHERE THE STOCK MARKET HAD CRASHED. SO EVERYONE WAS LEFT WITHOUT MONEY AND WAS BANKRUPT. THE PEOPLE COULDN'T BUY FOOD CLOTHING AND TAKE CARE OF THEMSELVES. ALSO IN THE 1930´S THERE WAS MANY DISEASES. THE DISEASES WERE VERY FATAL BECAUSE MEDICINES AND CURES WERE SCARCE DUE TO THE LACK OF MONEY. THESE DISEASES INCLUDED POLIO AND SYPHILIS TWO TERRIBLE DISEASES TO LIVE WITH. THEREFORE THESE DISASTERS HAD MADE LIFE IN THE 1930´S VERY DIFFICULT
a picture of what children with polio looked like