Period 4: 1930-1945
Primary Source:
This is a picture of a newspaper from the day the stock market crashed. This newspaper was published 4 days before the day known as black Tuesday, in which the stock market went completely under. During black Tuesday, over 16 million shares were sold in a single day. Billions of dollars were lost, wiping out thousands of invenstors. This massive stock market crash caused america to spiral down into the great depression. This affected my topic during this era because it damaged businesses and industry catastrophically, causing most businesses to go bankrupt. This is significant because it kicked off the start of the great depression in America.
Photographs:
This picture was taken during world war two inside a factory that mass produced tanks for the war. The photo displays lots of workers, including women, working to build tanks. This photo is significant to my topic because during World War 2, many factories were forced to change their prodcution from civilian goods like cars, or toasters, to war supplies like tanks, bullets, or jeeps. The war also helped American industry really pick up and boom due to the massive demand for war supplies.
This photo was taken in a car factory during the 1950s. This picture shows many workers buidling cars on an assembly line. This picture picture is significant because it shows industry in the 1950s, which was a huge year of improvement, especially in the automotive industry. During the 1950s, there were many huge developments in the automotive industries due to the pst war technology from WWII. This decade saw the start of cars mass produced with things like air conditioning, automatic transmissions, power stearing, anit-lock breaks, seat belts, and arguably one of the biggest change in the automotive industry, the overhead valve V8 engine.
These clips were filmed during the 1950s, and put together to display the accomplishments of the automotive industry during the 1950s. This video highlights all of the major accomplishments that were made in the automotive industry during this time, like the mass production of airconditioning, power steering, anti-lock breaks, and the overhead valve V8 engine.