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The Roaring 1920’s. World War I Statistics. If you were alive and living in the U.S. after WWI, what would your thoughts be on getting involved in world affairs?. What’s Your Position. Issue 1: Joining the League of Nations Issue 2: Should we disarmer Issue 3: Supporting the tariff
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World War I Statistics • If you were alive and living in the U.S. after WWI, what would your thoughts be on getting involved in world affairs?
What’s Your Position • Issue 1: Joining the League of Nations • Issue 2: Should we disarmer • Issue 3: Supporting the tariff • Discussion ?s • Do you think Isolationism was a good policy? • Are we Isolationists today?
Warm-up • What technology has really impacted your life today? • What technology would be very helpful to your age group for an invention?
1920’s Economic Boom • End of rationing • New technology discovered during WWI made production easier and cheaper • Workers made more products for less $ • Workers got paid more • Increased Consumerism • Tariff protected American products and businesses by discouraging foreign imports
1920’s Technology Assignment • Find 6 1920’s inventions • Tell how each revolutionized American’s culture and/or economy • Computer lab
Warm-up • How does disease spread through out the world? (Epidemic) • How could an epidemic affect the United States? • How can the United States protect itself from an epidemic?
With prices low, money available, and sprits high….it seemed like prosperity would never end! • Assignment: Find 6 inventions of the 1920’s • Tell how they revolutionized America’s culture and economy
Flu Epidemic • Fall of 1918 • ¼ of all Americans were infected • Devastated US economyshut down mines, telephone services, factories, offices • People wanted to avoid each other
Flu Epidemic clip • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbYwNOcKqqc • Should we be worried about disease spreading around the world today?
Flu Epidemic • Cities ran short on coffins, corpses of dead people lay unburied as long as a week! • People died within days • 500,000 Americans dead, 30 million killed World Wide! • Disappeared suddenly in 1919 • War is over, 1920s about to begin!
Politics of the 1920s • L.O. • Americans view on Immigrants • Economy at start of 1920s • Fear of Communism
Warm-up • 1. describe racism • 2. describe discrimination • 3. What factors create racism/discrimination • 4. How can you stop racism/discrimination • 5. What are some historical/current examples of racism/discrimination
Americans struggle with postwar Issues • Return to Isolationism • Economy was weakreturning soldiers lost their old jobs/or took them away from women and minorities • Cost of living doubled (until boo
Americans struggle with postwar Issues • Americans respond with • Nativismprejudice against foreign-born people • IsolationismUS pulled away from involvement in World Affairs
Fear of Communism • What is communism? What is Democracy? • What are the strengths of communism? • What are the weakness of Communism? • What are the strengths of Democracy? • What are the weakness of Democracy?
Warm-up • What are three ideas of communism? • What are three ideas of Capitalism?
What is Communism? • CommunismEconomic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship • End to private property, government owns factories, railroads, business • Equalize power and wealth
Red Scare • Communists called Reds (Red flag) • 70,000 Americans joined IWW (Industrial Workers of the World) • Mailed several dozen bombs to government/business leaders • Gov. thought Communists were taking over!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQCnl_l6p2s&feature=related • Spoof on communism • Write down some things that the clip makes fun of about Communism
Red Scare • Palmer RaidsAssistant J. Edgar Hoover and Palmer hunted down communists, socialists, and anarchists (oppose any form of government) • Violated people’s civil rights (invading homes, offices, jailing without legal counsel) • Never turned up any evidence against these groups!
Sacco and Vanzetti • Italian immigrants and anarchists • Found Guilty/sentenced to death for robbery/murder (Witnesses said they looked like Italians)!
KKK • What do you know about the Klan? • What would you like to know about the Klan? • Why is hate speech allowed in the United States? • What criteria should be used to punish those who use hate speech?
Limiting Immigration/KKK • Immigrants came from Southern/Eastern Europe/Work for lower wages • Nativistsfueled fire by declaring all immigrants were communists, anarchists, socialists
KKK • Devoted to 100% Americanism • 1924 4.5 million members • “White, male persons, native-born protestant Christians” • Believed “anti-Catholic/minorities/unions/saloons/foreigners)
KKK • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21XWx7GCTmE • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u56KAE0y8A • Klan in 1920s clip