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Good things the 1920s gave

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increased freedom, technology, higher standards of living, music: jazz and blues

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Bad thing the 1920s gave us

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illegallization of liquor/ corruption, organized crime, economic crisis, the revival of the KKK

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Calvin Coolidge quote

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“the chief business of the american people is business”

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Improved tech in 1920s was because factories adapted

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moving assembly line, perfected by Henry Ford

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Labor saving tech

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Vacuum, toaster, refrigerator, washing machine

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Celebrities

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Babe Ruth, Charles Lindbourgh, Rudolph Valentino, Enrico Caruso

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Cultural center for black americans

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Harlem

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Usa produced 85% of the worlds

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cars

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USa produced 40% of the worlds

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manufactured goods

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Big three automobile dealers

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Ford, Chrysler, General Motors

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Twenties Roar

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jazz age
dance age
age of prohibition

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Red Scare

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1917-Communists (Bolsheviks) killed the last Czar, took control of the Russian government and people worried about radical communism spreading to the USA
Palmer Raids: attack on people’s liberties

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Lucky Lindy

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Charles lindbergh
over atlantic ocean

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All That Jazz

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New style of music: Uniquely American, improvised, influences from Europe/Africa
Louis Armstrong; New Orleans
Jazz and Blues, born in the South, spread to Northern cities via “The Great Migration”

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Monkey Trial

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Small Tennessee town, teaching Darwin’s Theory of Evolution vs. Bible story of creation
Bryan (creationism wins), but he pays Scope’s fine

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Social Security:

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The last new deal that survived created a social insurance program designed to pay retired workers aged 65 or older a continuing income after retirement.

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New Deal

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a group organization put in place by FDR

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Calvin Coolidge

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30th president; Elected in his own right in 1924, Coolidge gained a reputation as a small-government conservative distinguished by a taciturn personality and dry sense of humor, receiving the nickname “Silent Cal”

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Charles Lindbergh

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the first person to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean in his monoplane, the St. Louis

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“The Great Migration”

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Black southerners relocate to northern and midwestern cities

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Louis Armstrong

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jazz icon

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Charleston

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the dance

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Flapper

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a subculture of young Western women in the 1920s who wore short skirts (knee height was considered short during that period), bobbed their hair, listened to jazz, and flaunted their disdain for what was then considered acceptable behavior.

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Buying on Margin

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getting a loan from your brokerage and using the money from the loan to invest in more securities than you can buy with your available cash.

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Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act

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The act raised US tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods.

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Bonus Army

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gathering of probably 10,000 to 25,000 World War I veterans who demanded bonus payment

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Depression within the Depression

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a spike in unemployment rates during fdr presidency

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Unemployment Rate during GD and when it peaked

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At the height of the Depression in 1933, 24.9%

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“Hoovervilles”

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a shanty town built by unemployed and destitute people during the Depression of the early 1930s.

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The U.S. Presidents of the Great Depression

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Herbert Hoover and FDR

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States affected by “Dust Bowl”

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Kansas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico

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The Federal Reserve System (The Fed)

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The Federal Reserve System is the central banking system of the United States of America

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Fed helped cause the market to crash-use the “house-builder” example to illustrate the point

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artificial interest rates that made people believe they had more money than they really did.

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why Prohibition was tried (1920-1933) and why it ultimately failed

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  • thought prohibition would make the country safer/better
  • gov wanted more control
    -improve virtue

why it failed
-people kept drinking and turning law abiding citizens into criminals
- increase in gang crime
- you cannot legislate morality

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when was the boom

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1920s

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when was the bust

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1930s

37
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who were the presidents in the 20s

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-wilson
-hoover
-harding
-coolidge

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where is charleston

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South Carolina

39
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Three words that define Interest rate

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Cost of Money

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where was the monkey trial

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tennessee

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Farmers ___________ because of _________ _________ in the mid to late 1920s

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struggled, low prices

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What is buying on margin

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borrowing money

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_____% of americans in 1929 had no _________ at all

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80%, no savings

44
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The 3 blunders of Adolf Hitler

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-Declaring War on the US
-Invasion of Russia
-Putting to many resources into the extermination of jews

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Which country had the largest amount of jews killed in the Holocaust?

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Poland

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At which location did Operation Overlord take place? What was the name of the place? (hint d-day, hint- over 2,000 americans killed here)

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Omaha Beach

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Which country saw the most casualties during ww2?

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USSR (Soviet Union)

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What organization was created after WW2 to prevent another war from starting?

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The United Nations

49
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What battle cost over one million soldiers and put the germans on the defensive on the Russian Front?

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Battle of Stalingrad

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