Important Dates
History
Challenges
The 1920's
Arts & Literature
100
1914
What is the date that WWI began?
100
people who smuggled liquor into the United States during Prohibition
What are bootleggers?
100
Rain-soaked, animal-infested trenches added to deaths
What were the challenges that added to deaths during WWI?
100
Bootleggers
What is a person that hid bottles of alcohol in their boots?
100
famous writer in the 1920's who wrote the GREAT GATSBY?
What is F. Scott Fitzgerald
200
1914-1939
What is the dates fr the Modern Era?
200
Great Britain, France, Russia
Who were the Allied Forces?
200
Better airplanes Machine guns Tanks Poison gas
What is advances in weaponry?
200
The infamous gangster who bootlegged on a massive scale.
Who is Al Capone?
200
The novel that shows the disillusionment of the “lost generation” of Americans living in post-war Europe.
What is Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises
300
1920
when was the 19th Amendment ratified?
300
Germany, Austria-Hungary
Who were the Central Powers?
300
belief in America as a land of opportunity expectation of progress faith in individualism
What is the American Dream?
300
clubs or bars where liquor was sold illegally in the 1920's
What is a speakeasy
300
A group of poets during The Harlem Renaissance
What is James Weldon Johnson, Langston Hughes, Countee Cullen
400
1917
When did the US join WWI?
400
Socialism is a political system based on the beliefs of Karl Marx.
What is socialism?
400
Nearly 50 million
What was total number of deaths during WWI?
400
young women who challenged social traditions with their dress and behavior during the 1920's.
What is a Flapper?
400
tells about a family that is ?displaced from its Oklahoma ?farm and forced into the California labor camps
What is the novel The ?Grapes of Wrath?
500
1919
When did the Constitution prohibit the manufacturing and sale of alcohol?
500
After the war, the United States fell into a period of economic depression marked by falling farm prices, labor unrest, and radical politics.
What is The Great Depression?
500
The New York stock market crash in 1929
What is the cause of the Great Depression?
500
music with roots in African rhythms, ?European harmonies, American gospel sounds, and the work songs of plantation workers
What is Jazz?
500
Passionately explored the issue of social justice in America during the Great Depression.
Who is John Steinbeck?
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