Rowing 20's Flashcards
What music was becoming popular in America?
Big Band Jazz
What was the Song of the Day?
Charleston
Biggest movie night?
Saturday
What were theaters called?
Who went there?
Movie Palaces
two biggest sports in the 20’s
What was so special?
Baseball and Boxing
It would be on the radio
Associated Press
A company that gets stories from all over the U.S. and sells them to other companies
Ticker Tape
A machine that ticked out the latest News stories.
Helps to spread news faster
Ticker Tape Parade
People would cut the ticker tape paper and throw it out the window for comfettie
Who was the Great Communicator?
Ronald Ragen
He was the announcer for the Cubs
When he was a kid he would read the ticker tape as the game was going
Movie Theater Schedules
- NewsReels
Main news stories - Cartoons
Disney was good at this - Shorts
Commodities ( 3 Studies) - Main Feature\
The main movie ( only for 1hr or so)
Education in the 1920’s was turned on its head, why?
What trial would be held because of it?
Who was the attorney of the trial
Why did this story spread?
Science teachers were teaching about evolution
Scopes Trials
William Jennings Bryan
Because it was secularism vs religion
The Great Migration
People moving from the south to the north or California
Diaspora
To send out
Mississippi Delta
Why was it bad?
Why was it good after they moved there?
Emancipated Slaves moved here and built huge Leavies
It would flood
The ground was full of nutrients
What type of music was developed in the Mississippi delta
Blues
What music was developed in Chicago
Chicago blues
Black Metropolis
Bronzeville
They played Jazz from New Orleans
Harlem Renaissance
WHy did people leave Mississippi to Chicago? Push factors?
- new inventions
- racism
- bull weave (insects)
- Jim Crow laws
- job opportunities
Whats the biggest city in mississippi
chicago
What did Chicago have most cities din’t have?
Black-run news paper
Chicago “Defender”
What train line leaves New Orleans and goes to Chicago
Illinois Central
What would people do to go to Chicago?
Walk along the track of the Illinois Central
Pullman porters
helpers on a train that would get to your every need.
How did people get their hands on the Chicago defender?
By Pullman porters
WHat cause the great depression?
People took out loans and bought a bunch of stock.
This led to inflation and the market crashed
What happened in the Great Depression?
High unemployment
poverty - income falls
What was looked down upon in the great depression?
taking unemployment checks
How did people livly hood in the great depression?
- poor diet
- no good food
- quicker aging
Who was the president in the Great Depression?
Herbert Hoover
What happened to many men who had lost their jobs in the great depression
Since these men only had skills in factory work, they had no real-life work
What did men who left their families do in the great depression
They would go to parks and build “houses” called Hoovervilles.
What did WW1 vets do when they didn’t get there paychecks?
What was the problem with the WW1 vets
They would go live in the Hoovervilles
The government didn’t like the Hoovervilles, so police had to come in and push em out
However, the WW1 vets were strong so the military had to step in
What was the Dust Bowl
A drought complemented by poor land management
- Farmers that got land from the Homestead Act, No science in land management
What did people want to do when the stock market crashed?
What did the banks say?
- They wanted to get all their out of the bank
- The bank said they didn’t have their money caused the stock market crashed
What was the relationship between people and big banks
trust was lost
Since we were a global economy how were the other countries of the world reacting to the great depression?
Other countries in Europe and America started to put tariffs on other countries and us.
What was Herbert Hoover’s plan for the Great Depression?
Just ride out the Great Depression?
After Hoover’s one term, who was the next president?
Franklin D. Roosevelt
What is “The New Deal”
we are the government and we are here to help
How did the U.S. government pay people
they paid people from the federal income tax
How does the government combat bank trust
they made banks take out insurance on their assets
What is (FDIC)
Bank-funded Insurance system
What did the government spend money on in the 20s
- rout 30 (Lincils highway)
- rout 41
- Dixy highway
- rout 66
(Dams, electricity)
TVA
Tennesse Vally Authority
Where was the First Battle of WW2
where did we send the German prisoners?
what do they do?
North Africa
The German prisoners were sent to the CCC barracks
The Germans worked for the farmers
CCC
Civilian Conservation Core
- 18-25 guys who get hired by gov’t to teach them how to be a civil engineer
- during the week they get trained (weekends they get freedom)
- they get paid 1 dollar a day
WPA
Work Projects Administration
Hired artist to paint on government buildings
Colorado River
what did they do with it?
the main water source for southern California
They made dams (Hoover Dam)
Social Security
what was the intention?
help for elderly, unemployed, disabled
It was intended as an income supplement ( not to live on it)
What started to grow during this time?
Unions
What did Christians feel about Unions
They felt like they couldn’t be a part of them
(not good practices)
(associated factories)
What happens to FDR on his fourth turn?
He has a heart attack
what party was running the country from 1940-60
Demecrats
What happened to Germany after WW1
Reparations
Germany is not in good shape
When does Adolf Hitler come into power in Germany (Supreme Ruler)
1933 - 1945
Hitler as a young boy, what is he?
He’s Austrian
What did his teachers say bout him during his school years?
He wouldn’t listen, he wouldn’t apply himself to school
How were his parents
He loved his mom
and hated his dad
What happened to him when he put together his portfolio when he wanted to go to the Art School in Viana
Why did they reject him?
He got rejected
He couldn’t paint people
What did Hitler do in Viana to make money
he sketched postcards
How does Hitler become German?
He enlists in the army during WW1 and gets German citizenship
When Hitler gets hurt in the war he gets put into a hospital, WHy did Hitler get pissed?
Because Germany gets put in Armisist
Armisist - bring the war to a close
What happened to Germany after the war
They have to pay a lot of countries money and coal and other resources
What job did Hitler get to stay in the Army?
He goes around Germany to talk against Communism
What ideas does Hitler get when he starts public speaking
He starts thinking that there should be new government
Who are the Brown Shirts?
The NAzi party
got the uniform for cheap.
What did Hitler do in Jail
He writes “Mine Comf”
“my struggle”
Why was Hitler released from jail
because the government new his group would riot
What does Hitler do with the German people
he asked them is “Life could get any worse, if not join us”
Benito Mussolini
Italian dictator
Who is Hitler’s hero?
Benito Mussolini
Who was the pope getting scared in the Vatican
He was getting scared that Italy would get so bad that they would have to move the Vatican to a new city.
Now that Hitler has more people than the Nazis What does Hitler do?
He wants to get his party in power so they can choose who they want to be leaders
Herman Goring
- SA
- “Storm Troopers” (Brownshirts
- He was the commander of the private army
- The nazi has its own private army
Adolph Eichman
- “Final Solution”
- Extermination of the Jews
How was Hitler smart about the documentation of all the Nazi’s war crimes
He never had his name on any order or crimes
Joseph Goebbels
- Director of Propaganda
- Nazis were masters of propaganda
- he would have plains and drop leaflets for the Nazi party
What is the SS
- Hitlers Bodyguards
- Hitler stole the idea from Napolean
- Special Ops group
Heinrich Himmler
- Leader of the SS
What is the SD
- Gestapo
- Secret Police
Eva Braum
Hitlers Girl Friend
Before he committed suicide they got married and they both committed suicide together
