Posted by 4Chancey on December 14, 2011 at 10:00am
On this day we talked a lot about the semester tests. We discussed options, the semester blog, and a few other things. Then we moved onto the 1920's. Here are the notes I took for the day.1. Roaring 20's-People bought many things on credit, the automobile comes into pop culture, radios become popular, the depression was a few years away, women start to become more and more revolutionary, econemy boomed, businesses thrived, sports boomed, movies made people millionaires, advertisements, newspaper, prohibition.2. A "return to normalcy"-WWI ended. Soldiers returned home.3. Red Scare-Russian government was overthrown, and feared that the US government would be taken over. Russians became communists in 1913. Communism tried to take over Spain, and Italy had Fassists and Communists. We feared the thought of going into communism.Immigration: Immigration was booming, and then we almost stopped it in case Communists came to the United States.Karl Marx: Had a Robin Hood type idea, taking from rich to give to poor.Vladimir Lenin: Marxist, or believed in Karl Marx. Russia was in trouble, and he had an idea of turning the people into the most important voice. Succeeded by Stalin.Palmer Raids: J. Edgar Hoover, created the F.B.I. Mitchel Palmer was his partner. They hunted down Communists and deported them.
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