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KDKA
first commercial radio station (1920)
national broadcasting company (NBC)
first national radio network
d. w. griffith
The Birth of a Nation (pioneered modern filming techniques)
george herman “babe” ruth jr.
first great home run hitter
bobby jones
first to win golf’s Grand Slam; best amateur golfer of all time
gertrude ederle
first woman to swim the English Channel
man o’ war
greatest racehorse of all time
lost generation
group of expatriate writers
f. scott fitzgerald
wrote The Great Gatsby about the vain lifestyles of the early 20s
modernism
literary movement that rejected traditional poetry
t. s. eliot
wrote The Waste Land
robert frost
one of the greatest traditional poets of the twentieth century
ashcan school
group of artists that painted realistic scenes of urban America
frank lloyd wright
considered the greatest American architect
george gershwin
popularized the music form jazz
irving berlin
one of America’s greatest songwriters
volstead act
put the 18th Amendment into effect
18th amendment
prohibited the sale and production of alcohol (1919)
violent
decreased
moonshiners
fill in the blanks
list the results of the 18th amendment.
______ crime and abuse decreased
Alcohol addiction _________
Increase in organized crime and “____________”
psychoanalysis
denies human personality and reduces man to a bundle of subconscious drives and fears
sigmund freud
psychoanalysis
behaviorism
a person’s environment is responsible for his behavior
john b. watson
behaviorism
economic determinsm
economic factors have an overriding influence on men’s decisions and the course of history
charles a. beard
economic determinsm
pragmatism
an idea or action should be judged only by its results
william james
pragmatism
progressive education
applies humanism to education encouraging children to follow their animal instincts and practice self-expression
john dewey
progressive education
secular humanism
matters of morality should be based on man’s well-being in the present life
existentialism
there is no truth or reality
soren kierkegaard
fill in the blank
existentialism began with the ideas of _____ _________
friedrich nietzsche
“God is dead.”
john t. scopes
school teacher who was on trial in defense of evolution
william jennings bryan
prosecutor in the scopes monkey trial
clarence darrow
lawyer for the defense
bryan
scopes
fill in the blank
_____ won the case and _______ was found guilty
