The Roaring 1920’s
Dec 16, 2015
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?
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)