Week 29: Between the Wars IDs

Maggie Walston

The Rrrroaring Twenties

• Called "The Golden Twenties", "The Jazz Age," and Années folles (Crazy Years)
• This era saw the return of young soldiers from the fronts of WWI, the growth of jazz music, the emergence of the new woman, and Black Tuesday, the sign of the Great Depression.
• Started in North America and spread to Europe
• Europe and North America spent these years rebuilding their economy after WWI
• Advances were made in music, art, literature, science, technology, and architecture

Social Changes

• Flappers
• The Lost Generation
• Red Scare

Flappers doing the Charleston

Notable People

• Henry Ford * Charles Linbergh * Albert Einstein

Science

• Hubble's Law introduced by Edwin Hubble
• Penicillin is discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming

Technology

• Radio in almost every home
• Technicolor
• Model T

Music

• Louis Armstrong * George Gershwin * Xavier Cugat

Art

• Cubism
• Art Deco style

The Chrysler Building displays the Art Deco style that came about in the 1920's

Literature

• Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

• The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

• All is Quiet in the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque

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