The Roaring 1920’s

World War I Statistics

• If you were alive and living in the U.S. after WWI, what would your thoughts be on getting involved in world affairs?

What’s Your Position

• Issue 1: Joining the League of Nations

• Issue 2: Should we disarmer

• Issue 3: Supporting the tariff

• Discussion ?s– Do you think Isolationism was a good policy?– Are we Isolationists today?

Warm-up

• What technology has really impacted your life today?

• What technology would be very helpful to your age group for an invention?

1920’s Economic Boom

• End of rationing

• New technology discovered during WWI made production easier and cheaper– Workers made more products for less $– Workers got paid more

• Increased Consumerism

• Tariff protected American products and businesses by discouraging foreign imports

1920’s Technology Assignment

• Find 6 1920’s inventions

• Tell how each revolutionized American’s culture and/or economy

• Computer lab

Warm-up

• How does disease spread through out the world? (Epidemic)

• How could an epidemic affect the United States?

• How can the United States protect itself from an epidemic?

With prices low, money available, and sprits high….it seemed like prosperity would

never end!

• Assignment: Find 6 inventions of the 1920’s– Tell how they revolutionized America’s

culture and economy

Swine flu!!!

Flu Epidemic

• Fall of 1918

• ¼ of all Americans were infected

• Devastated US economyshut down mines, telephone services, factories, offices

• People wanted to avoid each other

Flu Epidemic clip

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbYwNOcKqqc

• Should we be worried about disease spreading around the world today?

Flu Epidemic

• Cities ran short on coffins, corpses of dead people lay unburied as long as a week!

• People died within days

• 500,000 Americans dead, 30 million killed World Wide!

• Disappeared suddenly in 1919

• War is over, 1920s about to begin!

Politics of the 1920s

• L.O.

• Americans view on Immigrants

• Economy at start of 1920s

• Fear of Communism

Warm-up

• 1. describe racism

• 2. describe discrimination

• 3. What factors create racism/discrimination

• 4. How can you stop racism/discrimination

• 5. What are some historical/current examples of racism/discrimination

Americans struggle with postwar Issues

• Return to Isolationism

• Economy was weakreturning soldiers lost their old jobs/or took them away from women and minorities

• Cost of living doubled (until boo

Americans struggle with postwar Issues

• Americans respond with

• Nativismprejudice against foreign-born people

• IsolationismUS pulled away from involvement in World Affairs

Fear of Communism

• What is communism? What is Democracy?

• What are the strengths of communism?

• What are the weakness of Communism?

• What are the strengths of Democracy?

• What are the weakness of Democracy?

Warm-up

• What are three ideas of communism?

• What are three ideas of Capitalism?

What is Communism?

• CommunismEconomic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship

• End to private property, government owns factories, railroads, business

• Equalize power and wealth

Red Scare

• Communists called Reds (Red flag)

• 70,000 Americans joined IWW (Industrial Workers of the World)

• Mailed several dozen bombs to government/business leaders

• Gov. thought Communists were taking over!

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQCnl_l6p2s&feature=related

• Spoof on communism

• Write down some things that the clip makes fun of about Communism

Red Scare

Red Scare

• Palmer RaidsAssistant J. Edgar Hoover and Palmer hunted down communists, socialists, and anarchists (oppose any form of government)

• Violated people’s civil rights (invading homes, offices, jailing without legal counsel)

• Never turned up any evidence against these groups!

Sacco and Vanzetti

• Italian immigrants and anarchists

• Found Guilty/sentenced to death for robbery/murder (Witnesses said they looked like Italians)!

KKK

• What do you know about the Klan?

• What would you like to know about the Klan?

• Why is hate speech allowed in the United States?

• What criteria should be used to punish those who use hate speech?

Limiting Immigration/KKK

• Immigrants came from Southern/Eastern Europe/Work for lower wages

• Nativistsfueled fire by declaring all immigrants were communists, anarchists, socialists

                                                   

KKK

• Devoted to 100% Americanism

• 1924 4.5 million members

• “White, male persons, native-born protestant Christians”

• Believed “anti-Catholic/minorities/unions/saloons/foreigners)

KKK

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=21XWx7GCTmE

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2u56KAE0y8A

• Klan in 1920s clip