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Post WWI Europe• New smaller countries had many ethnic
minorities• EX Czechoslovakia=Germans, Poles, Ukrainians,
Hungarians, etc.
• Russia-Communist State• Germany-Kaiser Wilhelm forced to quite
• Weimer Republic replaced Kaiser and was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles
• Printed off tremendous amounts of money to pay reparations=hyperinflation
• Nazi propaganda said treaty was unfair-Adolf Hitler=1st national politician to speak out against treaty’s conditions.
Post WWI Europe• United Kingdom-funded war at a severe
economic cost.=biggest debtor• United States-Helped rebuild Europe, Allied
powers first and then Central powers• When US goes into Great Depression, she pulls
Europe in as well due to Europe's economic dependency on US.
• France- Annexed Alsace-Lorraine-territory Fr. And Germany were in competition in for the last 50 yrs.
• Fr. Had suspicions Germany would rebuild.
US Post WWI Tensions• Communism-socioeconomic
system• Common ownership of means of
production• No social classes
• Red Scare-Fear of Communism taking over in the US
• Discrimination of immigrants, outsiders, political radical liberals
• Effects=Harsher immigration laws and an emphases on the ‘American Dream’ conformity
US Post WWI Tensions• Ku Klux Klan- White
supremacist group wanting to purify American society.• Waves-
Reconstruction(1860), Post WWI, Post WWII
• Cross burnings and mass parades
US Post WWI Tensions• Scopes Monkey Trial- 1925
• John Scopes-High school teacher who was taken to court for teaching evolution to students
• Sparked national debate between Fundamentalist vs Modernist Controversy over religion and evolution.
• Case seen as a theological contest
Charles Lindbergh
• May 20, 1927• First non-stop flight across the
Atlantic Ocean (NY to Paris)• 33 ½ hours
• http://youtu.be/md0E-F_zLWo 3min
Lifestyle: Flappers•Women’s inhibitions lessened in the 1920’s•Men returning from the war• Independent feeling fulfilled by wartime duties
•New fashions, music, night life
•19th Amendments•New birth control remedies•New household appliances
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15XqYErtEfc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0 (dancing)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=684n8FO68LU (living in the 20’s)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svvCj4yhYc
DANCE MARATHONS!
Prohibition
• Alcohol increases: Domestic violence, rape, murder, child abuse, suicide, divorce
• Prohibition-Banning of Alcohol
•Bootlegging-Selling alcohol illegally
•Speakeasies-Place that sells illegal alcohol
Immigration and Prohibition: 1920’s
• 18th Amendment gave organized crime an opportunity to make a name for themselves by making, selling and transporting liquor
• Sicilian Mafia in Italy was under attack by Benito Mussolini
• Some escaped to the U.S.• Sicilian Mafia / U.S. Mafia: 2 separate
entities• U.S. mob families did adopt old-
country practices: Omerta
Rituals •Becoming a “made man:”•Ritual of cutting the hand and holding it over a burning picture of a Saint
•Must be Italian•Some crime families only required lineage from the father’s side.
•Lifetime commitment•Obey Omerta
Mafia’s 20th Century Dominance• Prohibition repealed in 1933
• Mafia moved beyond bootlegging to illegal gambling, loan-sharking, prostitution rings, and drug trafficking
• Mid 20th Century: 24 crime families w/5,000 members
• FBI was naive to the Mob: very little government intrusion
Harlem Renaissance• African Americans flourish in art,
music, and literature.• Music= JAZZ
• Louis Armstrong
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrzOzgYL1-o (free jazz)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgD-PBNyFrY (swing- Glenn Miller)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaz4Ziw_CfQ (blues)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg&feature=fvsr (Duke Ellington BeBop jazz)
• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM (Louis Armstrong)