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Boom To Bust 1920s - 1930s

Boom To Bust 1920s - 1930s. Questions: What would you do if you lost everything? (except house) How would you solve your economic circumstance? What role should government play in this factor?. 1920s in United States. Social Changes in the 1920s

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Boom To Bust 1920s - 1930s

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  1. Boom To Bust 1920s - 1930s • Questions: • What would you do if you lost everything? (except house) • How would you solve your economic circumstance? • What role should government play in this factor?

  2. 1920s in United States • Social Changes in the 1920s A. The 18th Amendment was passed in the first month of the new decade, which outlawed the consumption of alcohol. 1. Passed because of threat of moral decay. Troops experienced more freedom in WWI and young people will seek more independence. 2. Organized Crime and speakeasies will prosper. 3. 21st Amendment will reverse 18th in 1933 (Great Depression— Need a Drink). B. African-American Rights 1. Jim Crow laws still present. 2. AA will start to see more rights after WWI. (Great Migration) 3. Jazz is created and is the only American musical form. a. Harlem becomes Capital of Jazz b. Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Duke Ellington.

  3. 4. Harlem Renaissance brings what is known as the “holiday of the spirit”. 1. Beginning of the Civil Rights movement in 20th Century. 2. Civil Rights will be stopped by Great Depression and WWII. 5. During this time period the KKK grew to its largest membership (4 million). D. Women’s Rights 1. 19th Amendment will be passed in 1920 after 133 years— since Abigail Adams “Remember the Ladies”. E. Change in Science 1. Scopes Monkey Trial will take place in 1925 and argue whether Evolution or Creationism should be taught in science classes. F. Heroes 1. Babe Ruth and Charles Lindbergh

  4. G. Signs of Economic Problems 1. By 1927, 75% of all household goods were bought on credit. 2. Only 1% invested heavily in stock market. 3. Loss of Middle Class during 20s—w/ Coolidge and Hoover not helping. H. Indicators and Causes of Great Depression in US—Lags behind world. 1. Indicators of Stock Market Crash: a. Housing starts were declining. b. Business Inventories were up. c. Stock Market was over valued. d. People were buying on the margin. 2. Causes of Great Depression: a. Uneven distribution of income. b. Unbalanced foreign trade. c. Industrial mechanization. d. Overextended personal debts.

  5. I. Great Depression hits US 1. Bonus army veterans from WWI march on Washington to get paid (bonus was to be paid in 1945). 2. 100,000 people move to Soviet Union to escape G.D. a. More people leaving US then entering (1st time). 3. Hoovervilles (cities built outside major cities), Hoover Blankets (newspapers under arm; Hoover Flags (empty pockets worn inside out). 4. Franklin Roosevelt elected in 1932 w/ New Deal (becomes President January 20th—10 days before Hitler) a. 25% unemployment b. Closed banks and rushed 2 billion dollars in new currency. c. Double the size of Gov’t w/ alphabet soup (AAA, CCC, TVA). d. 20% unemployment in 1936 (Germany out of Great Depression).

  6. Cultural and Intellectual Trends Between the Wars A. The Arts 1. Dadaism: Enshrines the purposelessness of life. a. Examples 2. Surrealism: Stretched the reality beyond the material, sensible world and found it in the world of the unconscious through the portrayal of fantasies, dreams, or nightmares. a. Examples B. Psychoanalysis 1. Sigmund Freud creates new study of the unconscious (unconscious was the seat of repressed desires or appetites). 2. Carl Jung believed unconscious was an opening to deep spiritual needs and ever-greater vistas for humans. C. Physics 1. Albert Einstein – Relative Theory 2. Werner Heisenberg – “uncertainty principle”. Said that no one could determine the path of an electron (before everyone thought everything could be predicted: even the weather).

  7. Cultural and Intellectual Trends Between the Wars D. Music 1. Arnold Schönberg created twelve-tone composition. Used scale of twelve notes independent of any tonal key. 2. Swing movement takes place in Germany and tries to continue after Nazis come to power.

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