When a faithful Catholic boy gets a sign from God, he tries to save his family from their doomed Dust Bowl town by rebuilding an abandoned crop-duster airplane, but he must risk his own life to convince his grieving father to leave.

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This graduation thesis is dedicated to the description and analysis of economic development in interwar Czechoslovakia during the Great Depression. Firstly, political and economical changes which occurred in the world after the World War I and which had subsequently the main influence on the collapse of world's economy will be described. Also oppinions on possible causes of origin of this crisis will be summarized. The main scope of this graduation thesis is to describe and analyze the penetration of the Great Depression into the Czechoslovak economy, it's course and consequences that this crisis caused. The penetration of the crisis is observed in three different periods according to it's power. A significant part of this thesis consists above all with an observation of development of the macroeconomic indicators during the Great Depression in particular sectors of the Czechoslovak economy and their confrontation with the situation before the crisis. This thesis also addresses the question of social impacts of the crisis in Czechoslovakia. One part is also dedicated to comparison of the main economic indicators with other selected countries affected by the crisis.

The stock market crash of 1929 stands today as the largest decline in market value in the history of the United States. Consequently, the event destroyed the wealth of thousands of American families and institutions. On October 28th and 29th, the United States stock market fell 11.3 percent and 12.4 percent respectively, marking the beginning of a down market that lasted over three years, the time period known today as the Great Depression. This paper empirically analyzes the effects felt by each individual industry sector in the crash of 1929, identifying gross and abnormal returns over three major days in the crash. I then compare my findings to previous literature and economic theories, analyzing which sector returns were expected and which were abnormal.

This diploma thesis examines the weekly Hospodářský rozhled and its position in the contemporary economic thought. Hospodářský rozhled was claimed to be an independent weekly. This thesis describes its role as an economic journal in the context of the era. The first part provides a general definition of the topic. Within this chapter, the economy and situation of Czechoslovakia between the world wars is described as well as the establishment of the weekly. The second chapter focuses on the structure of the weekly, main characteristics of the content and confiscated issues. The third part analyses the main topics of the examined period - monetary policy and disputes with agrarian and communist parties. In the fourth part, the main topics of the particular years are analysed and scrutinised. In 1938, international and national problems intensified which also affected the content of the journal. Despite the growing radicalisation, the periodical maintained consistently its line of thought over the analysed period. Hospodářský rozhled criticised authoritarian regimes and defended democratic principles. The journal often pursued the defence of industry and critics of agrarian sector. The last, fifth chapter, focuses on the editors of the journal. Keywords Czechoslovakia, Hospodářský rozhled, economy,...

The New Orleans Athletic Club, founded in 1872, is one of the oldest athletic clubs in the United States that still operates today. After the boom of the 1920s and increased revenues, the club was forced to confront the Great Depression and shift its emphasis on the "strenuous life" to the "social life" to survive. The club had capitalized on the popularity of boxing during the 1920s and just finished constructing a lavish new club house when the stock market crashed in 1929. With members losing their jobs, the popularity of boxing waning, and the club in dire financial straits, the club looked for alternative strategies to survive. Its "social life" strategy relied on the club's various political ties to cut expenses and increased incentives for membership, which led to a larger, albeit, limited presence of women at the club.

This paper evaluates the United States' decision not to come to Austria's aid prior to and during the Anschluss of 12 March 1938. The uniqueness of this work is the two-front evaluation of both the internal/domestic affairs of the United States and the foreign policy of the US Government vis-à-vis Hitler's aggressive foreign policy. As this paper will show, Anschluss might have been prevented, but at a cost neither the United States nor European powers were willing to pay. The domestic situation in the United States was too fragile, as was the lack of public support for war for FDR to have any leeway in militarily aiding Austria. American, and to some degree European, opinion held that the Austrian question was a European matter, and to that end American domestic policy dominated foreign policy in hopes of reestablishing the United States economy prior to attempting to aid anyone else.

The National Labor Relations Act stands as one of the most influential pieces of labor legislation in the history of the United States. The Act defines the rights and responsibilities of both employers and employees. Furthermore, the National Labor Relations Act makes the State into the chief judicial body regarding labor disputes through the National Labor Relations Board. Chiefly concerned with the circumstances that led to the passage and affected the shaping of the Act, factors such as Communist organizing, racial politics of the Deep South, and internal division within the labor movement in the 1920s are examined. Specific case studies include the Auto-Lite Strike in Toledo, Ohio (1934), the Minneapolis Teamster Strike (1934), and the West Coast Longshoremen Strike (1934).

This diploma thesis examines parallel and differences between the interwar Great depression and the financial crisis of 2007. Comparison is made for United States and the thesis succes-sively deals with comparison of economic conditions measured by fundamental economic indicators and their behaviour and correlations. Next topic is cointegration analysis of money-income hypothesis for both periods. We reach the conclusion that economic situation and sta-bility were different. Furthermore, the thesis reveals monetary policy actions and role of fiscal stimulus. The last topic is comparison of regulation and liberalization of financial markets. On the contrary to the first part of thesis the issues solved in the second part showed that there were similarities between the Great depression and financial crisis.

The diploma thesis deals with the impacts of financial crises, especially into the U.S. and European stock exchange market and the real economy. Contains the analysis of the Great Depression and the current economic downturn which follows the financial crisis of 2007 - 2008 from the perspective of the New York Stock Exchange index (DJIA) and the FTSE index of London Stock Exchange, as well as from the perspective of macroeconomic variables such as real GDP growth, the rate of unemployment and the industrial production index. The similarities and the specific features of the causes of their formation, the reactions of the monetary and legislative authorities, the impact on the stock exchange markets, regulatory implications and impact on the real economy are mentioned as a result of the detailed comparison of the two crises. The thesis includes prove to the hypothesis of higher volatility on the stock exchange markets during the crises periods on the daily data by calculating the variance and standard deviation.