Post WWI Tensions

Post WWI Europe• New smaller countries had many ethnic

minorities• EX Czechoslovakia=Germans, Poles, Ukrainians,

Hungarians, etc.

• Russia-Communist State• Germany-Kaiser Wilhelm forced to quite

• Weimer Republic replaced Kaiser and was forced to sign the Treaty of Versailles

• Printed off tremendous amounts of money to pay reparations=hyperinflation

• Nazi propaganda said treaty was unfair-Adolf Hitler=1st national politician to speak out against treaty’s conditions.

Post WWI Europe• United Kingdom-funded war at a severe

economic cost.=biggest debtor• United States-Helped rebuild Europe, Allied

powers first and then Central powers• When US goes into Great Depression, she pulls

Europe in as well due to Europe's economic dependency on US.

• France- Annexed Alsace-Lorraine-territory Fr. And Germany were in competition in for the last 50 yrs.

• Fr. Had suspicions Germany would rebuild.

US Post WWI Tensions• Communism-socioeconomic

system• Common ownership of means of

production• No social classes

• Red Scare-Fear of Communism taking over in the US

• Discrimination of immigrants, outsiders, political radical liberals

• Effects=Harsher immigration laws and an emphases on the ‘American Dream’ conformity

US Propaganda towards Communism

US Post WWI Tensions• Ku Klux Klan- White

supremacist group wanting to purify American society.• Waves-

Reconstruction(1860), Post WWI, Post WWII

• Cross burnings and mass parades

US Post WWI Tensions• Scopes Monkey Trial- 1925

• John Scopes-High school teacher who was taken to court for teaching evolution to students

• Sparked national debate between Fundamentalist vs Modernist Controversy over religion and evolution.

• Case seen as a theological contest

Charles Lindbergh

• May 20, 1927• First non-stop flight across the

Atlantic Ocean (NY to Paris)• 33 ½ hours

• http://youtu.be/md0E-F_zLWo 3min

RADIO

Lifestyle: Flappers•Women’s inhibitions lessened in the 1920’s•Men returning from the war• Independent feeling fulfilled by wartime duties

•New fashions, music, night life

•19th Amendments•New birth control remedies•New household appliances

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15XqYErtEfc

Lifestyle: Games

FLAGPOLE SITTING

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNAOHtmy4j0 (dancing)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=684n8FO68LU (living in the 20’s)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3svvCj4yhYc

DANCE MARATHONS!

Prohibition

• Alcohol increases: Domestic violence, rape, murder, child abuse, suicide, divorce

• Prohibition-Banning of Alcohol

•Bootlegging-Selling alcohol illegally

•Speakeasies-Place that sells illegal alcohol

Immigration and Prohibition: 1920’s

• 18th Amendment gave organized crime an opportunity to make a name for themselves by making, selling and transporting liquor

• Sicilian Mafia in Italy was under attack by Benito Mussolini

• Some escaped to the U.S.• Sicilian Mafia / U.S. Mafia: 2 separate

entities• U.S. mob families did adopt old-

country practices: Omerta

Rituals •Becoming a “made man:”•Ritual of cutting the hand and holding it over a burning picture of a Saint

•Must be Italian•Some crime families only required lineage from the father’s side.

•Lifetime commitment•Obey Omerta

Mafia’s 20th Century Dominance• Prohibition repealed in 1933

• Mafia moved beyond bootlegging to illegal gambling, loan-sharking, prostitution rings, and drug trafficking

• Mid 20th Century: 24 crime families w/5,000 members

• FBI was naive to the Mob: very little government intrusion

Harlem Renaissance• African Americans flourish in art,

music, and literature.• Music= JAZZ

• Louis Armstrong

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrzOzgYL1-o (free jazz)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgD-PBNyFrY (swing- Glenn Miller)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qaz4Ziw_CfQ (blues)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDQpZT3GhDg&feature=fvsr (Duke Ellington BeBop jazz)

• http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2VCwBzGdPM (Louis Armstrong)