Between the World Wars

Between the World Wars: New Inventions and The Depression
(Why didn't the First World War resolve the crisises and prevent the Second World War?)

QCC objectives for the 5th and 9th grades	Ideas What do you think? ideas@worldclass.net
(5.13) Discusses the impact of the following on American lifestyles of the 1920s:-development of steel industries -home ownership (as the American dream) -invention and use of the horseless carriage -organized sports, and -availability of electricity.(8)	How did these inventions change our view of the world?
(5.19) Gives examples of how culture in the United States is reflected through art, music and literature during different historical periods including -Jazz Age/Roaring Twenties -Harlem Renaissance/Big Band Era -Contemporary Art. (19)
(5.14) Gives examples of causes and effects of the Great Depression -social (e.g., farmers, tenants, sharecroppers, and factory workers) -economic (e.g., New Deal), and -political (e.g., New Deal). (9)	Include comparisons of the effects in other countries. Often the effects are more severe. Germany and Japan, in particular. As a result, expansionist, imperialist policy became important (Japan and Germany).

Oklahoma Sharecropper Stalled on California Highway
(from photo gallery at the New Deal Network, http://newdeal.feri.org/)

Culture in the Jazz Age is an online course taught by Nick Evans at the University of Texas and features projects of some of his students, writing on various topics on the culture of the 1920's.

Flapper Culture and Style: Louise Brooks and the Jazz Age. Sponsored by the Louise Brooks Society, this page has several links as well as comments on a variety of cultural matters: books, hairstyles, music, clothes, etc. If you get to the end of the page, you may become an honorary flapper!

Flapper Station. A truly great collection of materials on cars, motorcycles, fashions, movies, radio sites, and art deco. Whatever you do, don't overlook the link on the history of the 1920's, or you'll miss some truly fascinating links, like those on the slang of the era and the FHS basketball champs of 1926.

The Jazz Age Page. Mostly music here on R. Richard Savill's page, but there are also links to Lindbergh and the '29 Market Crash. Be sure to check out his links to More Jazz Age Links, as he has some additional links that are not listed here. (Just click away the annoying JavaScript Error window that keeps intruding on your view.)

1920's Event Browser. Lots of interesting links here, including St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the Stock Market Crash, Moonshining, Sacco and Vanzetti, the Scopes Trial, Babe Ruth, Black Sox Scandal, Radio, Jazz, Fashions, Ku Klux Klan, Leopold and Loeb, Motion Pictures, and Prohibition.

The Roaring Twenties. "This page was created as a class project for tenth graders in a U.S. Cultures II class at Eastern Lebanon County High School. The objective of this project was to develop a better understanding of the Roaring Twenties. The students were asked to write newspaper articles as if they were living in the Jazz Age. Students researched important topics of the 1920's,including the Red Scare, the Scopes "Monkey Trial," and the Flappers. This page contains the newspaper the students created and also includes many interesting links to other pages devoted to the Twenties." Does this assignment sound familiar? Remember: These reports are written by students.

The Scopes' Monkey Trial Homepage. Part of a series of pages dedicated to famous trials, this one covers all aspects of the 1925, pre -O.J. "trial of the century."