1. Dates For Our Units of Study
World War I 1914 – 1918
Roaring 20’s
Great Depression
World War II

2. After WWI
European Allies were furious with Germany after WWI and wanted a treaty that punished Germany and made them pay for the damage of the war. (Treaty of Versailles)
President Woodrow Wilson, instead, thought that the treaty should try to lay the groundwork to “end all wars;” for example, he didn’t think that the Allies should punish Germany too harshly or make a land-grab for German colonies.
Wilson drafted his plan, called the “Fourteen Points,” and brought it to Paris; the Fourteenth “point” was the establishment of a League of Nations—an international governing body that would try to resolve international differences and support democratic nations.
European nations rejected almost all of Wilson’s ideas, but they agreed to set up a League of Nations—this became part of the Treaty of Versailles.
But when Wilson returned to the U.S. and tried to get Congress to ratify the treaty, they refused, mostly because they opposed the League of Nations.

4. The New Woman
August 26, 1920 the 19th amendment was passed giving women the right to vote.
Women’s fashion changed exposing arms and legs and more visible make up
Women lost the honest demure persona and began openly dancing, drinking and smoking. “Flappers”
Women were open to run for political office and 2 women became legislators in Georgia’s house of representatives
Rebecca Latimer Felton was the first woman to serve in the Senate, even if it is just for one day.

5. Female Fashion
Before
After

6. Music
Speakeasies, such as the Cotton Club in New York, opened supplying illegal alcohol.
Jazz music developed on the national stage with artists such as Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong
The blues, black folk music, also was popular during the 20’s with artists like Ma Rainey and Bessie Smith.
The Charleston.

7. Organized Crime
Prohibition gave rise to organized gangs (mafia) in large cities like New York and Chicago who made millions supplying alcohol to speakeasies.
Al Capone
Bug Moran
Baby Face Nelson
Frank Nitty

8. Life Changes in the Roaring 20’s
Things could be brought to your front door: doctor, milk, butter, ice cream, and vegetables.
Convenience foods allowed women more free time in the kitchen:
Birdseye frozen foods
canned foods
pancake mixes
presliced bread
baby food
With electricity becoming more convenient, electric appliances became more common.

9. Old Irons
Irons in
the ’20s

10. Entertainment Radio stations developed:
Baseball games
News
Programs “Grand Ole Opry”
Jazz
The first motion picture hit theaters and movies became a favorite past time. The Jazz Singer
Walt Disney created the first talking cartoon “Steamboat Willie”

11. Other Sporting Events were popular and several sports heroes developed
Herman “Babe” Ruth

12. Henry Ford Pioneered the manufacturing industry
Wanted to make his Model T affordable to all Americans
Made all of the parts interchangeable
This made producing the machines harder, but hiring workers easier.
His ideas were used by most business owners
Efficiency and quality.

13. Henry Ford
"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces."
"I will build a car for the great multitude. It will be large enough for the family, but small enough for the individual to run and care for. It will be constructed of the best materials, by the best men to be hired, after the simplest designs that modern engineering can devise. But it will be so low in price that no man making a good salary will be unable to own one – and enjoy with his family the blessing of hours of pleasure in God's great open spaces."

14. Produced in the millions over a decade Only available in one color
Inexpensive
1909 cost $850
1913 the price dropped to $550
1915 the price dropped $440
1925 the price dropped to $290
Those who could afford a car, owned a car.
A Typical Model T

15. Destruction of King Cotton
The Boll Weevil
The beetle hatch in the yellow flower of the cotton plant. As the flower becomes a boll (the place where the fibers are formed), the larvae feeds on the growing white, fluffy cotton, making useless.
Appeared in 1915 and quickly spread across Georgia.
By 1923, cotton production had dropped from 2.8 million bales in 1914 to only 600,000 bales.
Drought
In , a major drought hit Georgia.
The drought ruined most of Georgia’s other crops.
Between 1920 and 1925 over 375,000 farm workers left Georgia and the number of working farms fell from 310k to 249k.
Banks that had lent farmers money took huge losses and many farm related business closed.
Boll Weevil Blues

16. The Great Migration
Due to the agricultural depression of the 20’s tenant farmers and share croppers began leaving the South.
Many black farmers moved to industrial cities in the North like Detroit and Chicago.

17. Revival of the Klan
Targets included not only African Americans, but Jews, Catholics and immigrants.
Talk of “returning America to traditional values and morals”

18. Charles Lindbergh
Flew non-stop from New York to Paris on May 20th 1927.