Greatest Gen.
a generation of Americans who were born during the boom years of the 1920’s, grew up in the Great Depression, and defeated the axis powers of Germany, Japan, and Italy during World War 2.
What is the Greatest Generation?
In Europe, the aftermath of World War 1 helped in the rise of new Totalitarian Dictatorships like these people
Who is Hitler, Stalin, Mousilini, etc.
In 1929, the stock market crashes, causing deflation and the economy to fail.
What is the Great Depression?
From the 1920’s until the 1970’s, thousands of African-American families moved out of the south to different parts of the country.
What is the Great Migration?
The 1920’s also witnessed a cultural surge of African-American music and pop-culture influence in the
United States. The center of this was ___ in New York City.
• Theater
• Jazz
• Poetry
• Philosophy
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
It will be in the 1920s when this came to be, and it had a dramatic impact on the way Americans told stories, entertained themselves, and created entertainment that shaped global culture.
What is Hollywood?
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.
What is American Isolationism?
Communities banned together in order to help everyone survive during the Dust Bowl
What is Communities Rally?
With D.W. Griffith’s the Birth of a
Nation, which romanticized this racist organization, causing them to gain in prominence across the whole country both North and South.
What is the Resurgence of the KKK?
Step 1: Reopen the banks and rebuild consumer confidence.
Step 2: Social safety nets for Americans struggling to make ends meet.
Step 3: Get Americans back to work through government building projects.
What is the New Deal?
Professional these were broadcasted to the public via radio. It was during this time where we had a first sports celebrities like Babe Ruth.
On December 7th, 1941, the Japanese air force launched a massive raid on the American Naval Yard
What is Pearl Harbor
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.
What is the Everyday Life of an American during the Great Depression?
This was one of the worst periods of racial violence in the United States. African-American veterans returned home from battlefields in Europe. Many of these veterans would be looked upon with suspicion, subversion, or would be falsely accused of crimes against white people.
What is the Red Summer of 1919?
With the rise of the 19th amendment, also coincided with the passage of the 17th amendment in 1917 that made the consumption of alcohol illegal in the United States.
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.
What is Prohibition and the Mob?
It is this generation of Americans that shaped how we as Americans see ourselves and the rest of the world.
What is the Greatest Generation?
This landmark Supreme Court decision upheld FDR’s Executive order to intern Japanese people because it was a military necessity.
What is Korematsu v. United States
In the western states, the depression made farming very difficult for many farmers out west. Additionally, many parts of the west experienced the worst period of drought in the country.
What is the Dust Bowl?
People out of hatred would do this in order to scare black people and kill them
What is lynching?
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.
What was the election of 1932?
The industrial output of World War I helped kick start the American economy and helped create a consumer society.
What is the Economic Boom?
Churchill met Roosevelt on the battleship the Prince of Wales to develop their war strategy against Hitler and to help shape what the international world order would look like following World War 2.
What is the Atlantic Charter?
Churches brought a variety of food in order to help people who did not have food during the Dust Bowl.
What is Church Potlucks?
What is the discovery of Concentration Camps?
This sign involved people flipping their pockets inside out in order to show how poor they were from a lack of help from the government.
What are Hoover flags?