Russian
Civil War
Wall Street Bomb in 1920 killed 38 and seriously injured 143.
Red Summer of 1919
White mobs attacked African Americans in 25
cities. Worst riots were in Chicago, Washington,
D.C., and Elaine, Arkansas.
Tulsa Race Riot
of 1921
At least 39 killed
Election
Of 1920
• Ford Model T
• Ford Model A
The 1929 Graham Paige DC Phaeton shown here
featured an 8-cylinder engine and an aluminum body.
1927 Buick Master Six Brougham Sedan
1927 Duesenberg Model X Sedan
Made in Indiana
1933 Packard Twelve Five-Passenger
Sport Phaeton
1933 Pierce-Arrow V12 Convertible Coupe
Fallingwater, by
Frank Lloyd Wright
Unity Temple,
Frank Lloyd Wright
Art Deco
Laurel and Hardy
Charlie Chaplin
Buster Keaton
W. C. Fields
Roscoe “Fatty” Arbuckle
Alice White
Greta Garbo
Gloria Swanson
Fay Wray
Mary Pickford
Clara Bow
Douglas Fairbanks, Sr.
Will Rogers
Rudolph Valentino
John Barrymore
Tom Mix
Josephine Baker
Culture Wars of the 1920s
1. Prohibition
2. Role of Women
3. Resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan
4. Evolution
Prohibition, 1920-1933
Per Capita Consumption of Alcoholic Beverages
(Gallons of Pure Alcohol) 1910-1929.
Murder Rate
Prohibition presented lucrative
opportunities for organized crime
to take over the importing
("bootlegging"), manufacturing,
and distributing of alcoholic
drinks. Al Capone was able to
build his criminal empire largely
on profits from illegal alcohol.
Saint Valentine’s Day Massacre, 1929
Seven members of Moran’s gang gunned down by Capone’s gang
Feminine Tippler's
Ankle Flask, 1922
"The National Gesture,"
1926
2. Role of Women
Resurgence of the
Ku Klux Klan, 1915-1929
As many as 4 million members in 1924
Ku Klux Klan on Parade, 1928
Clarence Darrow at the Scopes Evolution Trial, 1925
Warren G. Harding,
President 1921-1923
Calvin Coolidge,
President, 1923-1929
Herbert Hoover,
President, 1929-1933
Unemployment rate
25
20
15
10
5
0
’29 ’30 ’31 ’32 ’33 ’34 ’35 ’36 ’37 ’38 ’39 ’40 ’41 ‘42
Dorothea Lange's Migrant
Mother depicts destitute pea
pickers in California, centering
on Florence Owens Thompson,
a mother of seven children,
age thirty-two, in Nipomo,
California, March 1936.
"Community Camp", a depression era shanty town, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
Dorothea Lange;
Abandoned farm.
near Dalhart, Texas
Arkansas girl in migrant camp near
Greenfield, California. This is an
Arkansawyers auto camp. Rent
ten dollars per month for one
room, iron bed, electric light.
(Dorothea Lange)
Dorothea Lange;
White Angel Bread Line,
San Francisco; 1933
Cotton hoers loading at Memphis, Tennessee for the day's work in Arkansas. June 1937.
Ozark family in Depression
Dust Bowl in Oklahoma
• Ozark family home
Sharecropper’s family in
Washington County, Arkansas
Boone Co., Arkansas
A “Hooverville” outside Seattle
• Negroes waiting for food in the Forrest City,
Arkansas, concentration camp; 1937
• Evicted sharecroppers
Bonus Army shacks burning
Franklin D. Roosevelt
President, 1933-1945
Franklin D. Roosevelt, Eleanor
Roosevelt, and John R. in
Albany, New York, 1930
Franklin D. Roosevelt
and the New Deal
• FDIC
• AAA
• CCC – Devil’s Den; Petit
Jean
• CWA and WPA
• REA
• Social Security
Fireside Chats
Devil’s Den State Park
• Dedication of University of Arkansas
stadium; built by WPA in 1938
1934
• CCC; planting trees
Eleanor Roosevelt in Los Angeles,
California, 1933
Eleanor Roosevelt's Travels, 1936-1937
Tennessee Valley Authority
Great Movies 1935-1946
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1935 A Night at the Opera (Marx Brothers)
1936 Modern Times (Charlie Chaplin)
1937 Snow White and the Seven Dwarves
1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood
1939 – Hollywood’s Golden Year
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1940 Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
1940 The Grapes of Wrath
1940 The Philadelphia Story
1941 Citizen Kane
1941 The Maltese Falcon
1942 Casablanca
1946 It’s a Wonderful Life
May 6, 1937
Hindenburg Disaster
Separated at birth?
Saddam Hussein
Stalin
Benito
Mussolini
“Il Duce”
Hitler in 1931
First they came for the communists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a communist;
Then they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out-because I was not a socialist;
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak
out-because I was not a trade unionist;
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out-because I was not a Jew;
Then they came for me-and there was no one left to speak out for me.
Martin Niemoeller, German minister and opponent of Nazis who
spent seven years in a concentration camp
Spanish
Civil War
1936-1939
Hitler in May 1937
Adolf Hitler
“Der Fuhrer”
Man of the Year
1938 - Hitler
German Expansion, 1936-1939
Hitler in
April 1941
Messerschmitt Bf 109
Heinkel He 111 over London, 7 September 1940
Bombing of London, 1940
1940
Churchill
Hurricane
Spitfire
Winston Churchill, Franklin D. Roosevelt, F.D.R. Jr., and Elliott R.
at the Atlantic Conference, August 1941
Churchill and Roosevelt at Casablanca, 1943
1941 – Franklin D. Roosevelt
The Four Freedoms
FDR, Jan. 1941
Painted by
Norman Rockwell
1. Freedom of Speech
2. Freedom to Worship
3. Freedom from Want
4. Freedom from Fear
Nazi
aggression
to 1941
Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941
Japanese “Zero”
Grumman F4F3 US Navy Fighter
Lockheed P-38 Lightning
P-51A Mustang
American B-17s (Flying Fortresses) flew in elaborate
formations to concentrate defensive machine gun fire.
B-24 Liberator
B-29 Superfortress
Sherman tank
Panzer IV
Jerome Relocation Camp
Franklin D. Roosevelt, General
William Wilbur; General Marshall,
and General Patton in
Casablanca , 1943
The Big Three: Churchill, Roosevelt, Stalin (Yalta, 1945)
Normandy Invasion D-Day June 6, 1944
Key Military Leaders
Europe
• Eisenhower was Supreme Commander
– B. L. Montgomery, British Field Marshal
– George Patton
– Omar Bradley
• German General: Erwin Rommel
Russians take Berlin May 2, 1945
Harry S. Truman
President, 1945-1953
The Expansion of
Japan, 1931-1941
Pacific Theater
• General Douglas MacArthur
• Admiral Chester Nimitz
Douglas MacArthur coming ashore in 1944
Kamikaze attack off Okinawa
Atomic bombs dropped
Hiroshima – August 6, 1945
Nagasaki – August 9, 1945
Japan surrenders on September 2, 1945
Chester Nimitz signs Japan’s surrender
V-J Day August 15, 1945
People movements after World War II
United Nations
Oct. 24, 1945
15 members of Security Council
5 permanent members: U.S., Russia, U.K.,
France, China
1948: Universal Declaration of Human Rights
Dresden, Germany in 1945
Countries that received Marshall Plan aid
Berlin Airlift,
1948
Chinese
Civil War
Baby Boom, 1946-1964
Joseph McCarthy, senator from Wisconsin
Election
Of 1948
Stage 1: North Korea attacks
Stage 2: Americans pushed to
Pusan Perimeter
Stage 3: Inchon
Stage 4: Approaching the Yalu
Stage 5: China enters the war
Stage 6: Stalemate
U.S. Atomic Tests, 1945-1962
The Military-Industrial Complex, 1952
The Military-Industrial Complex in Los Angeles