Roaring 20s and WWII Flashcards
Roaring 20s
-emphasized the period’s social, cultural, and artistic dynamism
-Art deco, jazz, flappers, prohibition, prostitution, and dancing
flapper
-redefined womanhood
-women showed legs, smoked, drank, and bob cuts (controversial)
jazz music
-Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
-african american and minorities
-also known as swing
-didn’t operate to the normal places where music went
volstead act
-prohibiton-made selling alcohol illegal
-opened door for mafia and organized crime
-could charge more to make moonshine and sell alcohol
dancing
foxtrot, swing, Lindy Hop, Charleston
-not with the times
the great depression
-black Tuesday- stock market crashes and spreads to other industrial nations
-people committed suicide off buildings they paid for
-hit all around the world and at different times
-created political upheaval like Hitler and Mussolini to take power
-people rushed to take money out of banks causing banks to crash because they don’t have people’s money on hand and people don’t have money in the banks
Dust Bowl
-depression hit the farms and dust bowl hurt them
-okkies- people from oklahoma who lost everything
-banks called for mortgages but OK can’t pay for it and lose farms
-central park becomes a shanty village
Herbert Hoover
-known previously for food and drug administration
-becomes president during great depression unpopular and blamed for it
-people called their cardboard homes hoovervilles
isolationism
-1930s was a period of greatest support for isolationism
-Knew treaty from ww1 wasn’t going to end well so stayed out of Europe
-wanted to solve depression at home rather than go to war
-stayed out of militaristic risings of Hitler and Mussolini and Japan
-Germany had been hit the hardest and had debts to pay and Mussolini was a fascist gaining power
-a lot of people though getting involved in ww1 was a mistake because it was a fight for democracy that wasn’t won, pointless
