The Roaring Twenties!!!

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The Roaring Twenties!!!

• 1920 - 1929

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World NewsWomen Gain Rights, Freer Lifestyle,
Fashion, and Flappers

• The 19th Amendment was passed in 1920, granting
  women the right to vote.
• More women were hired for office jobs.
• Hair was cut shorter, and clothing became shorter
  and less covering.

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World NewsProhibition Goes Into Effect in the
United States

• Selling, creating, and moving alcohol became
  illegal.
• Alcohol was sold illegally in speakeasies.
• Alcohol was smuggled in from Mexico, Canada, and
  the West Indies. This was called bootlegging.
• Alphonse "Scarface" Capone

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World NewsThe First Miss America Pageant

• In 1921, the first Miss America Pageant took
  place with a total of eight contestants in
  Atlantic City, New Jersey.
• The winner, a 16-year old girl from Washington,
  D.C., was Margaret Gorman.
• In the beginning the competitors stood not as
  delegates of their home states, but for their
  cities.

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World News Benito Mussolini Becomes Prime
Minister of Italy

• As leader of Italy, he would go on to become
  Europe's first fascist dictator.

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World NewsGandhi Sent to Jail

• His offense resisting to accept British control
  of India.
• The pacifist and his followers used non-violent
  tactics and civil disobedience as means of
  protest.

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Other World News

• Egypt Becomes an Independent Nation (1922)
• In November of 1923, Adolf Hitler and his Storm
  Troopers attempted to gain control by barging in
  on a beer hall meeting. Hitler was soon arrested
  and sent to jail for treason.
• In May 1926, a constitution was established in
  Paris for the republic of Lebanon. In order to
  try to resolve differences between Muslims and
  Christians in the republic,
• Nationalists Gain Control of China (1927)
• Babe Ruth Breaks Home Run Record (1927)

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FinanceFinancial Prosperityin the USA

• Fueled by easy money the nineteen-twenties were
  boom times like never before. The post-war
  recession was forgotten as everyone went on a
  spending spree. Credit, and not savings, enabled
  consumers to boost corporate profits to new
  levels.

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Boom in the USA!

• New discoveries and inventions.
• New business and production methods.
• Large profits.
• There were an estimated fifteen thousand U.S.
  millionaires in 1927, and at least one
  billionaire
• The Stock Market climbed to dizzy heights

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Economic Turmoil in Europe

• It should be pointed out that people living in
  Europe in the 1920's, Germany and Austria
  especially, suffered massive hyperinflation that
  destroyed the wealth of the middle class and led
  to political and economic turmoil in the affected
  countries.

• Following World War I, Germany had been unable to
  pay its huge debts.
• To make matters worse, the value of German money
  plummeted, making it of no value.

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The Stock Market Crash (1929)

• End of the good times, the Roaring Twenties,
  and the Jazz Age.
• The market climbed, and then began to fall.
• People panickedSELL SELL SELL!
• On October 29, 1929, (otherwise known as "Black
  Tuesday") a total of 16.4 million shares were
  sold in all. The market could not recover.
• Ushered in the Great Depression.

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The Stock Market Crash
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Science and TechnologyAlbert Einstein is
Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics (1921)

• Einstein published his theory of relativity in
  "On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies." Among
  his other publications included The Meaning of
  Relativity.
• In 1939, Einstein helped to inform Franklin
  Roosevelt, then President of the U.S., that
  Germany was possibly creating atomic weapons.

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Science and TechnologyTutankhamen's Tomb is
Found (1922)

• The body of the 18-year old king and his treasure
  were uncovered after more than 3000 years.
• Found by English archaeologist and Egyptologist
  named Howard Carter (1873-1939) and Egyptologist
  George Herbert (Lord Carnarvon)

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Science and TechnologyThe British Broadcasting
Company (BBC) is Created (1922)

• The first television broadcast to the public was
  made by this company in 1929.
• The BBC has had world-wide influence on radio and
  television and is still active today.

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Science and TechnologyThe Scopes Trial (1925)

• In 1925, a Tennessee biology teacher named John
  Thomas Scopes was put on trial for teaching
  evolution.
• Scopes eventually lost the trial and was charged
  100.00.
• The outcome of the "Monkey Trial" was later
  changed a technicality was found.

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Science and TechnologyHenry Ford (1863 - 1947)
makes the Model A

• Henry Ford did not invent the car he produced an
  automobile that was within the economic reach of
  the average American.

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Other News in Science and Technology

• The public is able to hear radio broadcasting for
  the first time. (1920)
• The very first motor hotel or motel, Motel Inn,
  is opened in the state of California. (1925)
• John Baird Introduces His Television (1926)
• Penicillin is Discovered (1928)
• Kodak introduces 16mm color film. (1929)

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Arts and LiteratureThe Jazz Age
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Arts and LiteratureThe Jazz Age

• Harlem Renaissance
• The works of African Americans in fields such as
  writing and music escalated.
• Styles of music including Dixieland and blues
  became popular as well.
• The Charleston, a lively dance with origins in
  South Carolina and African American styles,
  became immensely popular.
• Louis Daniel Armstrong (1901 - 1971), from New
  Orleans, Louisiana, displayed his amazing talents
  as a trumpeter, cornet player, and singer during
  the Jazz Age

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Arts and LiteratureAdolf Hitler's Book, Mein
Kampf, is Published (1925)

• Autobiography
• The book, written while Hitler was imprisoned
  early in his career, reflected his hatred of
  Jews, and his belief that Germans were a superior
  race.

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Arts and LiteratureF. Scott Fitzgerald
Publishes The Great Gatsby (1925)

• His writings often portrayed people who became
  successful in the social and financial worlds,
  but did not share the same prosperity in their
  morals.

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Other News in Arts and Literature

• T.S. Eliot publishes The Waste Land, a free verse
  poem. (1922)
• In New York, George Gershwin's Rhapsody in Blue
  is performed. (1924)
• Harold Ross founds the New Yorker. (1925)
• Ernest Miller Hemingway publishes his book, The
  Sun Also Rises. (1925)
• A. A. Milne Publishes Winnie the Pooh (1926)
• The Jazz Singer Becomes the First Talkie (1927)
• Walt Disney presents Mickey Mouse in Steamboat
  Willie, a cartoon complete with sound. Disney
  provided the voice of the soon-to-be famous
  mouse. (1928)
• Ernest Miller Hemingway publishes A Farewell to
  Arms. (1929)
• Charlie Chaplain (1889 - 1977) stars in The Kid,
  his first full-length film