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Roaring 20s

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a period of great change and tension

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“culture civil war”

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old conservative christian values and traditions were questioned and replaced with new liberal anti-christian ideas
- religion was questioned for the first time

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Great Migration

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blacks move from the south to the north
- created “racial tension”

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Who was blamed for all the bad in the new society?

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Immigrants, Catholics, and blacks

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“Red Scare”

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a fear that there was going to be a communist take over of the american government

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Prohibition

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18th ammendment - “Noble Experiment”
- Led by the women’s temperance union
- illegal to manufacture, buy or sell alcohol

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Volstead Act

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closed all taverns, bars, and saloons in USA

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Gangsters (Bootleggers)

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ran illegal alcohol businesses/brought “booze” from canada

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“speakeasies”

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underground alcohol/dance clubs

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Farmers “Moonshiners”

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rural areas made homemade recipes (whiskey)

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What was the main reason Prohibition ended?

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alcohol was a huge tax revenue for local, state, and federal governments

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consumerism

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the acquisition of material goods beyond what is necessary

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Modern inventions that made life easier in the 20s

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  • automobiles
  • radio
  • household appliances
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Who were the early leaders of the women and reform movement?

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  • susan b. anthony
  • elizabeth cady stanton
  • lucrecia mott
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Seneca Falls Convention

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  • first women’s rights convention
  • official beginning of the women’s rights movement
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“suffragettes”

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women’s activists

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who were the leaders of the american feminist movement?

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alice paul and lucy barns

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19th ammendement

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gave women the right to vote
- led to the sexual revolution

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sexual revolution

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  • women gained a new sense of freedom and independence
  • began to work outside the home for the first time
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Planned Parenthood

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  • founded by Margaret Sanger
  • set up to rid society of too many poor black and immigrant children
  • motto: less children brought more freedom
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What/who was responsible for millions of abortions in the Usa during the 20s?

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Planned Parenthood/Margaret Sanger

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“flappers”

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the unconventional new women who wore their hair short, wore makeup, wore short skirts, smoked and drank just like men

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cigarrettes

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“freedom torches”

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scopes monkey trial

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God or revolution taught in schools

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what was the impact of the scopes monkey trial?
- evolution began to be taught in public schools as a result
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what were the new musical styles created during the 20s?
Jazz and the Blues
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Who were 2 very popular musicians during the 20s?
George Gershwin - jazz composer Louis Armstrong - jazz trumpeter
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Cotton Club
most famous jazz club in Harlem
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Danze Craze
The "Charleston", the "shimmy", and "the flea hop" - most famous dance steps
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What new source of communication and invention unified the nation?
The Radio
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Radio
brought entertainment, news, weather, sports, etc. right into the home
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WKDKA - Pittsburg
1st radio station in America
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"talkies"
films with words in the 20s
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"The Jazz Singer"
1st "talkie" film
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Actresses of the 20s
- greta garbo - mary pickford
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Actors of the 20s
- Charlie Chaplin - Rudolph Valentino - Gary Cooper
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The Automobile
- gave americans a sense of freedom and independence - people went on vacation for the first time
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Henry Ford
- greatest engineer of the time - with his model t made autos affordable - created the assembly line
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Detroit
auto capital of the world
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What did the manufacturing of cars create?
created new industries motels, gas stations, road construction and resorts
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Harlem Renaissance
"New Negro Movement" - celebration of african american culture - began to create their own music, literature, and art
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Charles Lindberg
"Lucky Lindy" - 1st solo transatlantic airplane flight - national hero
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Marcus Garvey
- made the "back to africa movement" - said it was hopeless to integrate the races in america - encouraged negroes to be proud of their heritage and return home to their roots
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W.E.B Du Bois
co-founder of the NAACP
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Great Depression
severe worldwide economic crisis that took place during the 30s
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causes of the great depression
- unequal distribution of wealth - Overproduction in industry - high tariffs - easy credit - stock market crash (banks had no insurance so most people lost their entire life savings overnight
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what event marked the official beginning of the great depression?
the stock market crash
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"hoovervilles"
shanty towns during the great depression
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the dust bowl
worst drought in american history
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what was USA's farm belt?
the great plains (texas, oklahoma, kansas, etc)
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"okies"
people who migrated to california on rt. 66 during the dust bowl
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"hobo"
migrating worker or homeless vagabond - most send their money home to their families, some abandoned them
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when did the great depression end?
1941, when the US entered wwii
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major causes of world war ii
- mistreatment of germany under the versailles treaty - the great depression leads to the rise of dictators in europe
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how did dictators rise up to power?
by promising to get countries out of the depression and bring prosperity.
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What were the 4 extreme forms of government during ww2?
- Communism: Soviet Union/Russia - Fascism: Italy and Spain - Nazism: Germany - Militarism: Japan
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what were the shared ideologies of the 4 forms of government?
- demanded fanatic loyalty to leaders/country - totalitarian/police states where the police or government controlled everything (people had no rights) - racism: superiority of their race
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Italy (Fascists)
- leader was benito musselini
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spain (fascists)
francisco franco was the leader
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Mein Kompf
"My Struggle" book written by Hitler - Nazis "Bible" "Master Race"
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how does hitler come to power?
- promises to get the german people out of the depression - promises revenge for german mistreatment in the versailles treaty
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Brown Shirts (Stormstoppers)
help hitler to come to power (nazis militia)
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Gestapo
German Police
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Black Shirts (SS)
becomes hitler's personal army - EVIL
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Swastika
"Blood Flag" symbol of the nazis
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lebensborn program
breeding program between aryan women and SS officers * goal was to create "racially pure" people
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What were hitler's undesirable groups? | (7)
- polish/russian - Roma (gypsies) - jehovah witness - homosexuals - handicapped - negroes - jews
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why did hitler hate the "undesirable groups" so much?
he blamed them for germany's loss in wwi and germany's financial problems
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what was the only country that hitler respected? why?
Great britain, because of its mighty empire
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who were hitler's biggest supporters?
Hitler youth and the SS
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Nurenberg laws
anti-jewish laws in germany segregated and labeled with "a star of david"
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Munich Pact
Neville Chamberlain - prime minister of the UK makes the Appeasement policy and gives in to hitler's demand to avoid war
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why did the league of nations do nothing to stop the aggression of japan, italy, and germany?
the had a fear of another world war
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molatov-rebbentrop pact
german-soviet union non-aggression pact: alliance between them

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