Greatest Generation
What do we mean by the greatest generation?
It is this generation of Americans that
shaped how we as Americans see
ourselves and the rest of the world.
Radio & Advertising
The radio became a place by which Americans from California to Maine enjoyed the same music, listened to the same news stations, and became aware of the same products being sold around the country.
Harlem Renaissance
African-American music & pop; Theater, Jazz, Poetry, Philosophy.
Herbert Hoover
President during the great depression, When the Depression occurred, he believed that it was his responsibility to let the economy recover on its own.
American Isolationism
As war brewed in Europe and Asia,
most Americans wanted to avoid
being involved in another conflict
overseas. Most Americans advocated
for an isolationist foreign policy.
Causes for the economic boom of the 1920s
The industrial output of World War I helped kick start the American economy and helped create a consumer society.
Prohibition & Mob
This period saw a rise in illegal shipments of alcohol across the country and the beginning of serious organized crime like Al Capone, and the Chicago mob.
Wallstreet crashes
October of 1928 with crashing of the New York Stock Market. The economy began to slow down.
Hoovervilles & hoover flags
would turn the inside of their pockets outside
and call them Hoover flags indicating that
Hoover left them with nothing. Hoovervilles were slums that emerged in
major cities like New York or Chicago.
Lend Lease Act & Oil Embargo
FDR will sign the Lend Lease Act which gave the British Empire weapons and ammunition to continue their war against Germany.
FDR will also place an Oil Embargo against the Japanese making it more difficult for them to fight their war in China.
Consumerism
The economic & social belief that high cunsumtion of goods, beyond basic needs, is desirable & fuels economic growth.
Red Summer
The Red Summer of 1919 was one of the worst
periods of racial violence in the United States.
White mobs would destroy black small business/ city property.
American life during Great Depression
Lack of money in the economy and the collapse of banks across the country meant that business could not pay their employees. It meant that Americans could NOT pay their mortgages or have enough money to buy food.
Election of 1932
Roosevelt ran on a platform to help
Americans get through the Depression by reopening banks, getting the federal reserve to print more money into the
economy, and to get Americans back to work.
Pearl Harbor & Japanese Ambitions
Japanese prepared a plan to eliminate the United States navy and prevent the Americans from becoming a threat in the pacific. On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese air force launched a massive raid on the American Naval Yard in Pearl Harbor Hawaii.
Hollywood
It will be in the 1920s when Hollywood came to be, and it had a dramatic impact on the way Americans told stories, entertained themselves, and created entertainment that shaped global culture.
Great Migration
Thousands of African-American families moved out of the south to esacpe white supremacist.
Dust Bowl
Massive dust storms destroyed towns, homes, and farms. This was known as the Dust bowl
Fireside chats
To explain his policies to the public, Roosevelt used the power of the radio and newsreels to get his message out to the public., this was a opportunity to hear directly from the president.
Japanese Internment & Civil Liberties Act of 1988
FDR will sign an executive order forcing all Americans of Japanese descent to be sent to internment camps.Civil Liberties Act was a $20,000 & a formal president apology to all surviving U.S. citizens incarcerated during WW2.
Baseball
Played by civil war soldiers, became americas past time brotcasted to the public via radio. 1st celeberty babe Ruth.
Resurgence of KKK?
After D.W. Griffith's the birth of a nation, Across the whole country. They no longer hated just African Americans but also Catholics, immigrants, and Jews,
Communities Rally
Despite the hardship of the depression, many Americans chose to put their resources together to help one another during these difficult times, church potlucks.
The New Deal
The New Deal was a series of steps that FDR took to recover the American economy during the great depression.
American Homefront
From the moment it entered World War II, the United States used its economic and military might to help fund the allied war effort overseas. Guns, Ammo, Medicine, food, tanks, planes, trucks and jeeps were all being produced in the United States.