Chaniqua SimpsonAbigail Farley

Judith AndersonStephen DonaldLexxi Goggins

1914-1918

Before & After the Great War

• Archduke Ferdinand and his wife Sophie were assassinated

• The War lasted four years and about 9,906,000 people died

• France, Russia, Great Britain, Italy, United States, Austria-Hungary, Germany, and the Ottoman Empire all took part in the war

• Immigration increase in America

• Red Scare

Lost Generation

Gertrude Stein

F. Scott Fitzgerald Ernest HemingwayT.S. Elliot

Ezra Pound

“A Farewell To Arms”by: Ernest Hemingway

• Published in 1929

• Takes place during WW I

• Relying only on oneself

• Typical Romeo and Juliet love story

• Automobiles• Investment /

Installment• Radios and Silent

Films• Volstead Act• “Jazz AgeJazz Age”

• Music• Dancing • Flappers• Slang• Speakeasies

• Great Migration• Black middle class• Literature• Arts• Alain Leroy Locke

• Sterling A. Brown• Countee Cullen• Jessie R. Fauset• Langston Hughes• Zora Neale Hurston• Nella Larsen• Claude McKay

Born February 1, 1902Parents Separated

Mary LangstonMarch 1915

Started writing at an early age

Pressured to choose another career

The Negro Speaks of RiversBy: Langston Hughes

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the

flow of human blood in human veins.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.

I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln

went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.

I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers.

My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

About the Poem• Best-known poem• Purpose of the poem• Published in The Crisis• Dedicated to W.E.B. Du Bois• An inspiration to others• Published in

The Great Depression 1929-1941

• Increased spending• Installment plans• Declining prices• Deficit spending• Black Tuesday

• Years of drought• Failed rotation of

crops• Pulled up grass which

left dirt

Great Depression

Dust Bowl

Literature of the Time

Characteristics

• Dark

• Gloomy

• Reflected hard times

Authors

• Will Rogers

• H. L. Mencken

• Robert Benchley

“The Grapes of Wrath”by: John Steinbeck

• Published in 1939

• Hardship of living during the Great Depression

• Dust Bowl

World War II 1939-1945

WWII• Axis vs. Allies

• US 1941

• An estimated 71 million dead

• Sept. 1939- Sept. 1945

• Allied victory

Personal Accounts

• Jo-Ann Morissey: A Child’s Wartime Experiences

• Recalls Father in WW II

• Edwin H. Keel: Bombardier

• Recollects D-Day

Sourcesslide 1

• http://www.sheppardsoftware.com/images/USA/factfile/acoffee.jpg

• www.cinemastrikesback.com/index.php?p=531

• http://www.solarnavigator.net/images/explorers_history/

world_war_australian_infantry_small_box_respirators_ypres_1917.jpg

• http://todaysseniorsnetwork.com/World%20War%20II%20soldiers%20training.jpg

Sources( slides 2-5 Abigail)

• www.answers.com/topic/world-war-i

• www.info.tampere.fi/a/amuri/fgot/sarajovo.htm

• www.users.rowan.edu/~lindman/lost_generation.html

• http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0684801469.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

Sources (slides 6-9 Chaniqua)

• http://asms.k12.ar.us/classes/humanities/amstud/97-98/jazz/PAGE1.HTM

• http://www.redhotjazz.com/youngarmstrong.jpg

• http://www.100.nist.gov/oldcar.jpg

• http://www.assumption.edu/users/mcclymer/His130/P-H/Harlem2/jeunesse.jpg

• http://afroamhistory.about.com/od/harlemrenaissance/a/harlem_writers_2.htm

Sources(slides 10-12 Judith)

• www.library.vcu.edu/.../stagg/stagg021.jpg

• http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/83

• http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/15722

• http://artsedge.kennedy-center.org/exploring/harlem/themes/negrospeaks_text.html

• http://www.dia.org/exhibitions/woe/images/comps/image09.jpg

• http://www.shunpiking.com/bhs/images/LANGSTON.jpg

http://xroads.virginia.edu/~MA03/staples/douglas/images/soul.jpg

Sources(slides 13-16 Stephen)

• www.images.encarta.msn.com/…/pbo/t001/T001822A.jpg

• www.library.thinkquest.org

• www.indianchild.com

• www.albany.edu/~dj2930/outfdust.jpg

• www.okcc.state.ok.us/.../dust-bowl-phot.jpg

• http://www.route-66-memories.com/images/grapes-of-wrath.jpg

• http://www.parida.com/img/unemployed.gif

Sources(slides17-19 Lexxi)

• http://www.northamptonshire.co.uk/events/riat2002.htm

• http://www.b-26marauderarchive.org/DA/DAP.htm

• http://www.army.mil/cmh-pg/books/wwii/Guard-US/ images/p13.jpg

• www.nps.gov/archive/elro/glossary/world-war-2.htm

• www.history.com/minisites/worldwartwo

• www.grolier.com/wwii/photos/wwii_photos.html

• www.hln-store.com/servlet/Detail?no=381

• www.fortunecity.com/tinpan/parton/2/ww2.html