1. After the war: The Roaring Twenties
SSUSH16- Investigate how political, economic, and cultural developments after World War I led to a shared national identity.

2. World War I Ends! Treaty of Versailles ended the war Fourteen Points
Germany accepted full blame, lost land, reduced army, and paid $33 in war reparations to the Allied Powers
Fourteen Points
List of terms issued by President Woodrow Wilson that resolved World War I and proposed the League of Nations
The League of Nations
A world organization to promote peace
Although it was proposed by our President, Congress rejected American membership because they feared we would become entangled in foreign affairs

3. The Red Scare Resulted from a fear of communism
Communism is the economic model where industrial workers would share the means of production and distribution
Was the opposite of capitalism
Often led to a dictatorship (Ex: When Russia is overthrown and became the Soviet Union or the USSR)

4. The Red Scare (cont)
What resulted from the Red Scare was restrictions on immigrations particularly those from Europe
This also encouraged a revival in the KKK
The quota system was passed that limited the number of immigrants who came from each country.

5. The Economy Booms Henry Ford began:
Mass production- rapid manufacturing of large numbers of identical products
Assembly line- arrangement of equipment and workers in which the work passes from operation to operation in a direct line as the product is assembled
Model T- first automobile to be mass produced
This drives down the price of the car
Costs $805 in 1908, but $300 in 1925

6. The Economy Booms (continued…)
The 1920’s saw a “consumer revolution”
Goods are more affordable
“Buy Now, Pay Later!” (credit)

7. Society Changes in America
Prohibition (18th Amendment)- banned the distribution, sale, and consumption of alcohol
Divided the nation and led to organized crime, development of speak easies, NASCAR, and bootlegged alcohol

8. Society in America (continued…)
19th Amendment
Extended the right to vote to women
Efforts of early suffragists like Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony
The importance of women to the war effort during WWI led to many seeing their vital role in society

9. Pop Culture is Born (slide 1)
With the economy doing well, more people had more money to spend and decided to spend on entertainment
Americans purchased radios, telephones, and went to movie theaters
The celebrity also developed

10. Pop Culture (slide 2) The Jazz Age Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
A period of time when Jazz became popular and the main form of music to listen to
Jazz was a blend of music that emphasizes improvisation
New Orleans- cultural centerpiece of jazz music
Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington
Popularized jazz music

11. Pop Culture (slide 3) The Harlem Renaissance Langston Hughes
Explosion of African American culture, art, and literature
Gave emphasis and a cultural identity
Langston Hughes
Famous African American writer and poet of the Harlem Renaissance

12. Pop Culture (slide 4) Tin Pan Alley Irving Berlin
Collection of NY composers who dominated the music industry in the 1920s
Irving Berlin
Most famous Tin Pan Alley and wrote “White Christmas” and “God Bless America”
Piano bars and night time became popular in Manhattan
Flapper Movement- women dressing “provocative”, dancing, wearing short dresses, cutting their hair short, and smoking cigarettes.