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1 The Twenties Woman and Popular Culture

2 MAIN IDEA What are we studying today?

3 Terms & Names What is a flapper?

4 Young Women Change the Rules
How does a flapper break the mold of the traditional woman in the United States?

5 Young Women Change the Rules
Why is having a shorter haircut or dress liberating for women of the 20s?

6 THE DOUBLE STANDARD Why could one say the flapper was the ideal but not the reality of the 1920s?

7 THE DOUBLE STANDARD How do ideals about marriage change?

8 THE DOUBLE STANDARD What is a double standard?

9 THE DOUBLE STANDARD Why can it be said that women were held to a double standard?

10 Women Shed Old Roles at Home and at Work
What jobs were women performing for the war?

11 Women Shed Old Roles at Home and at Work
Why did people assume women would quit their jobs when the “boys came home.”

12 Women Shed Old Roles at Home and at Work
Why are so few women able to become managers?

13 Education and Popular Culture
What was the problem having so many foreign-born students?

14 Education and Popular Culture
How does the government solve the issue of growing school expenses?

15 EXPANDING NEWS COVERAGE AND RADIO
Why do magazines and newspapers flourish in the 1920s?

16 EXPANDING NEWS COVERAGE AND RADIO
Why are tabloids the most popular of the new periodicals?

17 EXPANDING NEWS COVERAGE AND RADIO
What does the radio provide for the family?

18 America Chases New Heroes and Old Dreams
Why does the interest in large scale entertainment grow?

19 America Chases New Heroes and Old Dreams
Why was Babe Ruth so important to Baseball?

20 America Chases New Heroes and Old Dreams
Why is Charles Lindbergh's’ flight so important?

21 ENTERTAINMENT AND THE ARTS
What new forms of movies emerge in the 1920s?

22 ENTERTAINMENT AND THE ARTS
Who was George Gershwin?

23 ENTERTAINMENT AND THE ARTS
Who was Georgia O’Keeffe?

24 WRITERS OF THE 1920s Who was Sinclair Lewis?

25 WRITERS OF THE 1920s Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald?

26 WRITERS OF THE 1920s Who was Edna St. Vincent Millay?

27 WRITERS OF THE 1920s Who was Ernest Hemingway?

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