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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?

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  • 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?

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Jazz and the Blues

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Who were 2 very popular musicians during the 20s?

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George Gershwin - jazz composer
Louis Armstrong - jazz trumpeter

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Cotton Club

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most famous jazz club in Harlem

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Danze Craze

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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?

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The Radio

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Radio

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brought entertainment, news, weather, sports, etc. right into the home

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WKDKA - Pittsburg

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1st radio station in America

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“talkies”

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films with words in the 20s

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“The Jazz Singer”

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1st “talkie” film

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Actresses of the 20s

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  • greta garbo
  • mary pickford
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Actors of the 20s

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  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Rudolph Valentino
  • Gary Cooper
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The Automobile

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  • gave americans a sense of freedom and independence
  • people went on vacation for the first time
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Henry Ford

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  • greatest engineer of the time
  • with his model t made autos affordable
  • created the assembly line
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Detroit

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auto capital of the world

40
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What did the manufacturing of cars create?

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created new industries
motels, gas stations, road construction and resorts

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Harlem Renaissance

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“New Negro Movement”
- celebration of african american culture
- began to create their own music, literature, and art

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Charles Lindberg

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“Lucky Lindy”
- 1st solo transatlantic airplane flight
- national hero

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Marcus Garvey

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  • 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

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co-founder of the NAACP

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Great Depression

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severe worldwide economic crisis that took place during the 30s

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causes of the great depression

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  • 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?

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the stock market crash

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“hoovervilles”

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shanty towns during the great depression

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the dust bowl

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worst drought in american history

49
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what was USA’s farm belt?

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the great plains (texas, oklahoma, kansas, etc)

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“okies”

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people who migrated to california on rt. 66 during the dust bowl

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“hobo”

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migrating worker or homeless vagabond
- most send their money home to their families, some abandoned them

52
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when did the great depression end?

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1941, when the US entered wwii

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major causes of world war ii

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  • mistreatment of germany under the versailles treaty
  • the great depression leads to the rise of dictators in europe
54
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how did dictators rise up to power?

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by promising to get countries out of the depression and bring prosperity.

55
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What were the 4 extreme forms of government during ww2?

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  • 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?

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  • 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)

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  • leader was benito musselini
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spain (fascists)

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francisco franco was the leader

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Mein Kompf

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“My Struggle” book written by Hitler - Nazis “Bible” “Master Race”

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how does hitler come to power?

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  • 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)

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help hitler to come to power (nazis militia)

62
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Gestapo

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German Police

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Black Shirts (SS)

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becomes hitler’s personal army - EVIL

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Swastika

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“Blood Flag” symbol of the nazis

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lebensborn program

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breeding program between aryan women and SS officers
* goal was to create “racially pure” people

66
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What were hitler’s undesirable groups?

(7)

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  • polish/russian
  • Roma (gypsies)
  • jehovah witness
  • homosexuals
  • handicapped
  • negroes
  • jews
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why did hitler hate the “undesirable groups” so much?

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he blamed them for germany’s loss in wwi and germany’s financial problems

68
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what was the only country that hitler respected? why?

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Great britain, because of its mighty empire

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who were hitler’s biggest supporters?

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Hitler youth and the SS

70
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Nurenberg laws

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anti-jewish laws in germany
segregated and labeled with “a star of david”

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Munich Pact

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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?

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the had a fear of another world war

73
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molatov-rebbentrop pact

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german-soviet union non-aggression pact: alliance between them

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