iii) Source B is more useful than source A as evidence of the causes of the Depression because source A is written from a speech given by President Hoover on December 2nd in 1930, when the Depression was happening, and as is given by the President of the USA he is obviously blaming the other countries, so people wont make him the only risponsible, when he actually is. And source B is more useful because was written in 1984, when the Depression was over, by a person who is not related at all with the causes of the Depression, so is a person able to get to a conclusion of who is the risponsible of cuasing the Depression.
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i) Two reasons why agriculture did not share in the 1920s boom: 1)
ii) The Wall Street Crash happened in the 1920s. The Wall Street is only supposed to work properly if there are more buyers than sellers becasue people think that prices are carrying on upwards because they are confident. But when they are not confident and think that prices might stop rising then all of a suden there would be more sellers than buyers, and the whole structure would come down. That is actually what happened.
iii) The Wall Street Crash lead to a collappse of the US economy becasue the it was based on people buying shares, and since the Wall Street Crash nobody trusted Hoover becasue he couldnt find a solutioIn1932n to their prolbems, also most workers were liad off or were paid less and so the didnt bought any share, also most people instead of buying or investing their money they kept it. As nobody was buying shrares
iv) In 1932 Hoover was regarded as a “do nothing” president, also there was a saiyng that siad: “ In Hoover we trusted, now we are busted”. Obviously nobody wanted him as the President of the USA. He also did and said many things with which people didn´t agreed at all, like that the security of the poeple wasn´t his responsability, that the Nonus Marchers were criminals and communists and he orderd to attack them, to burn their possessions. Nobody was commfort with what Hoover was doing, and with what he had done, he was not popular at all. That´s why in 1932 Roosevelt won the elections.
