新版“英语国家概况”精讲笔记(17)

conditions of the poor, to ban child labour, work hour limit for women workers,and industrial accident insurance. Political area:to reform state and city governments and economic area:to

at the beginning of the and war, Wilson said American policy was

purposelessness.the war changed the U.S.

speculation（股票市场投

all walks of life. His

机） and over expansion ―fireside chats‖over the of credit.(借贷过度膨胀)stock market crash

radio were listened to by millions of people.罗斯福

neutrality, But in fact it from a debtor nation pursued a policy of pro-Ally(支持同盟国) partiality. American declared war on Germany on April 6,

into a creditor. There

(1929): America‘s stock 于1932年成为美国总统，

他能准确辨别什么是现实的

was further urbanization, market crash came on new development of technology and mass production. The 1920s in the U.S. has been

October 24,1929, called 或可行的。他是一个伟大的the black Thursday 没有交际者，能够和各界人事谈对各种投资公司调节与控

的来。他通过无线电播出的

regulate big businesses.1917.The Peace ①the Muckrakers and

Conference,the Paris

制。银行系统缺乏稳定性。―炉边谈话‖拥有数百万的听

described as a period of 股票市场的投机与信贷过度众。 material success and spiritual frustration.

膨胀。股票崩盘：

②the New Deal:

Progressive Movement: Conference,began on The Muckrakers, a

January 18,1919.The

1929.10.24，被称为黑色Measure of the New 星期四。

②the gross national

Deal include establishment and

group of reform-minded conference was actually More people had cars. journalists,made investigations and exposed various dark sides of

society.Progressive Movement was not an organized campaign with clearly defined goals.Rather, it was a number of diverse

a conference of division The government gave of colonies of

help to industry and

product(GNP) shrank(收strengthening of

government regulation and control of banking;

Germany,Austro-Hungabusiness. There existed 缩) from $87 billion in ry and the Ottoman Empire and the

a highly aggressive and 1929 to $41 billion in intolerant nationalism.

1933. the unemployed Federal government went up; Misery and

management of relief

grabbing of as much as There was the Red possible from the defeated nations.The result of the Paris Conference was the

Scare in 1919 and 1920. personal sufferings were and security system（社There was the revival of widespread.国民生产总值会救济保障体系）; the Ku Klux Klan(三K党从1929年的870亿降到反动组织复活)which

recovery of industry and

1933年的410亿美元。失agriculture; passage of

efforts at political,social, emergence of the and economic reforms.

Versailles Treaty

claimed a membership 业率增加，不幸和痛苦到处federal labour laws; of 5 million. 5)the Great 可见。

Depression(1929-1937) 6)Franklin Roosevelt

improvement of the situation of minorities and members of certain

搜集并揭发丑闻的人，是一System in Europe.

群锐意改革的新闻记者，调4)characteristics of the and the New Deal 大萧条and the New Deal 查和揭露了社会的阴暗面。1920s

进步运动不是一场具有明确The 1920s in the U.S. 目标的有组织的运动，而是has been described by 政治，社会以及经济改革方many historians as a 面一系列不同形式的努力。 period of material 3) role of the U.S. in WWI success and spiritual

和新政

①no regulation or control over various kinds of investment

①Roosevelt became the religious groups.These U.S. president in 1932. measures,was to ―save He had a sure sense of American what seemed practical

democracy‖.and help overcome the most serious economic crisis

companies.The banking or possible. He was a system lacked stability. great communicator,

able to talk to people in

frustration or confusion stock market