America before the Jazz Age

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America before the Jazz Age

• Events in American History
• that Created the Roaring Twenties

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America at War!!

• America looks hungrily at its neighbor
• The American PressYellow Journalism
• War with SpainRemember the Maine!
• A Nice Little War 1898
• The Myth of the Rough Riders
• The Emergence of Theodore Roosevelta teddy bear
  of a president

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America Emerging as a World Power

• The Power Brokers
• Age of Invention
• Isolationism
• Political Aspirations
• American Military

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World War

• Empires Emerging Nations
• Germany v. France England
• American Expeditionary Forces Go Over There
• American Forces Turn the Tide

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Political Maneuvering

• President Wilson Travels to Europe
• 14 Points
• League of Nations
• U.S. Senate Shuts the Door
• Wilson Dies Trying

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Aint We Got Fun...

• The Jazz Age
• The Roaring 20s
• Prohibition
• Women Vote
• Fads Fashions
• SportsThe Babe
• Lucky Lindy
• Politics as Usual
• Rhapsody in Blue

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The Great Gatsby

• F. Scott Fitzgerald Zelda Sayre
• Symbols of the 20s
• Themes