Western Europe: post-war

Disarmament

Lessen military to lessen possibility of conflicts

Overproduction

Over-make supply but no demand for it → waste money

Where do corporations borrow loans from to fuel production

The bank…to buy raw materials

Where do banks get money from

People

What will overproduction do to banks

Make them waste money and eventually have no money

General strike

Several labor groups strike at the same time

What appeals to Europe as they are all in a mess

Communism

there is hatred between..?

Soldiers (work hard jobs) and officers (behind the scenes and doing nothing)

The League of Nations was who’s idea and why was that weird

Was americas idea so why are they not in it ??

Roaring 20s

• women get more rights

• “living for the day + for pleasure”

Dadaism

Art that makes no sense

• SUPPOSED TO MEAN THAT SOLDIERS WERE STRESSED AND HAD NO IDEA WHAT WAS GOING ON DURING WWI

Dadaism was taken over by

abstract art

Example of abstract art is

Cubism (geometric shapes to make images)

artist who did abstract art

Picasso

What did Picasso do and why was it good and bad

Stole from African art….

• obviously bad but also made it popular

Surrealism

takes a look into the inner minds of people

Artist who did surrealism

Dali

Jazz age

Basically African American music gaining popularity and the Africans gaining more rights and being free

Houston race riots 1917

African American soldiers hounded by police who want Jim Crow laws

• HANGED AFTER TRIAL

East St. Louis riots 1917

African American homes were burned…… CAUSED RIOTSS

great northern migration was from where to where

South to north

great northern migration

African Americans move to St. Louis, Pittsburgh, New York, Chicago, Detroit

What did the great northern migration cause?

Overcrowding, sanitation issues, infrastructure issues

Harlem renaissance and example

• strong financial foundation

• Rebirth, African music culture

LANGSTON HUGHES

sexual revolution

women become more independent ———- there is a change of view for women (BREAK FREE FROM STEREOTYPESSS)

Flappers

Young, free independent women

1920

women can voteeee

Anna Coleman ladd

Prosthetics for soldiers

shell shock is another term for

PTSD

when Germany goes bankrupt, who helps

US

what happens to the US

Struck by the Great Depression

What did president hoover think about the economy crisis

That it would fix itself (NOO??)

what did unions do

Call for general strikes

many industries overproduced and that caused?

Deficit spending (spending more than you make)

president Franklin de Roosevelt created..?

The New Deal

The New Deal

TRIED TO FIX ECONOMY

• socialist reforms (unconstitutional by Supreme Court)

• Regulated stock market

• Protected bank deposits

• Jobs and aid to farmers

People got mad and blamed who??

Jewssss……(antisemitism)