Dirty Thirties Politics

Herbert Hoover was blamed for the cause of the stock market crash and leading to the great depression.Roosevelt almost singlehandly forged a new political alliance between the working classes of the Northern cities.Roosevelt said he would try to find a way to get us out of the great depression we are in.For saying he wanted to help us out of the great depression he won the election for a second time.WWII greatly helped the role of women. Women, as soon as the war was started, were desperatley needed in the workforce after thousands of job vancancies opened up when the men went to war. Women were encouraged to leave their traditional house-wife roles of cooking, cleaning, and raising the children to work in munitions factories. Daycares were common at factories for the women's children to go to while they worked.And some women were sent to war as medics to make sure more men could be send to fight the war.Canada would help out Great Britain by sending them resources by boat but sometimes they would get hit by torpedos from a German attack sub hiding in the pacific.So Lewis Nixon invented sonar which would find submarines underwater.Then we started sending ships in convoys (Cargo boats guarded by destroyers with sonar) and we were able to find German subs and destroy them and got alot more resources to Great Britain.