Not sure how a thread about Hoover belongs here, but if you want a response, I’ll say that the man was responsible for the 1929 crash, and the Great Depression that followed.
Todd
With all respect Todd, no he wasn’t. What caused the Great Depression was a series of events that certainly with the benefit of hindsight could have been prevented but remember, hindsight is always “20-20.”
Maybe Hoover’s response could have been more energetic, but if he didn’t know what to do he wasn’t alone, no-one knew what to do.
As to President Roosevelt’s response, the “New Deal,” liberal and conservative historians have been arguing over that for decades as to how effective it was or wasn’t, and it’ll never be resolved to anyone’s satisfaction.
Hey, I had a history teacher in high school who lived through the era and who told us that as far as he was concerned Adolf Hitler and Hideki Tojo did more to end the Great Depression here in the US than any American elected official did, NOT that he was a fan of either of those two monsters!
Just remember, just as American presidents can get the credit for good things they have nothing to do with, they can also get the blame for bad things they have nothing to do with.
And that’s all I’m going to say about THAT particular can o’ worms.
While Hitler and Tojo started the war, American response to the war was what got us out of the depression. Deficit spending was thru the roof to pay for the war effort.
Reminds me of a Blue Book Final in Econ 101 in college - Explain the causes of the Great Depression.
You now have 60 minutes!
Todd’s answer would have gotten a F for a lack of specificity.
A fairly apt analogy of the problem with alpha emitters. Alpha particles are heavy charged particles with stong interaction with the electron clouds of the material the particle is traversing through. I.E., the danger comes from the very short distance in which the energy of the particle is dissipated. In addition, the particles have enough momentum to knock atomic nuclei out of their position in a crystal lattice or molecule.
The decay chain from Radon to lead involves another four alpha decays plus several beta decays, though few are as short half life as Radon.
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Normal respiration takes care of almost all of the lazy half lifes but the fast high energy stuff will be deadly…
In my opinion most of the fun stuff is neutron flux or neutron activation. Not so much radiological poisoning as incident radiation. But
Not at all! Great stuff… anything I can use in the classroom to expand on radiation and how we can handle the problems in dealing with it is helpful.
Thanks for this.