So the band, vocal, and pe teachers finally figured out that there are no semester tests for those classes. which is good. this means i get to sleep in a little both days and leave early monday. =)
1920's stuff again today. very necessary. drea and i havent finished our video yet, so this saves us a lot of research time. thank goodness he's breaking them up into specific categories. got through the first three yesterday.
Roaring 20s -yesterday
Mahjong~! love that game.
Red scare -yesterday
Republican domination -yesterday
War prevention -
WW1, previous to WW2, was known as The Great War, or the war to end all wars. in the 1920s, people took measures to try and ensure that that was true, that there wouldnt be any more wars.
Washington Naval Conference - 4 power pack (USA, GB, France, Spain), made 3 powerpack treaties. first tried to eliminate imperialism, to a degree. said they'd respect each others; possessions in the Pacific. so basically they would not try to take over each other's colonies/islands, etc. Things took a 180 for japan after trhe depression.....later....5 power treaty included same four countries, plus italy - froze naives where they were in 1921, so that each country would no longer build up their navies -loopholes were found. 9 Power Treaty included those five countries and the netherlands, portugal, belgium, and china -kept open door policy in china, promised the chinese people independence.
Kellogg-Briand Pact: inculded 60-some countries, signed a pact to pretty much outlaw war.
Automobile and Airplanes
Henry Ford made automobiles available. He was an efficient guy, so he did the assembly line thing, which got the cars ready quick, which made them more common, which made them cheaper. also, credit was the big thing in the 20s, so people payed certain amounts over certain amounts of time.
the famous Model T. you cuold get it in any color, as long as it was black.
impact? its pretty much the only invention wher you go almost anywhere and life revolves around it. hello? roads. transportation. gotta get places. gotta park somewhere. sped things up soooo much and created tons of jobs (not just making the cars, but also the roads, parking lots, garages, repair mechanics, etc)
Airplanes: obviously, the plane has come a long way since 1903, kitty hawk, the wright brothers. by the 1920s, it wasnt quite where we are now with them (obviously) but it was definitely still imporved greatly. "Lucky Lindy" Charles Lindbergh was the first person to fly nonstop across the atlantic ocean. became a huge celebrity because of it. Amelia Earheart was the first woman to fly nonstop across the atlantic, but is more famous for dissapearing on her journey across the world - she made form california all the way to australia (heading east) and was gonna land somewhere in the pacific but never made it there. lots of speculation as to what happened to her.
Scinence vs. Religion
Rural vs Urban....previously, people were guided mostly by religion. inthe 1920s, cities had lots of loosely immoral people, while country places held on to the religious values more so.
because for the first time, scientists and religious people really started butting heads.
1920 census, half the people lived in cities. throught the decade, 2 million people moved from farms to cities.
Prohibition: 19th amendment recap, made the transportation/making/selling of alcohol illegal (but not the drinknig of it, specifically), supporters believed alcohol caused most of the social issues, supporters were mostly from south and west areas, led by anitsaloon league and WTCU....at first saloons closed and drinking and drunkeness went down. but then...
Why did it fail? 1) brought about massive organized crime. gangs really came about, the mafia, speakeasies, bootlegging, also started prostituion and gambling rings. brought about tons of illegal stuff. because people who didnt support the prohibition became lawbreakers even if they just wanted a drink after work and they were good people. so crime rate. 2)there werent enough people to enforce it. 3) people hated it. a lot.
So, prohibition really backfired. so the government officials realized this and repealed it. speakeasy: illegal bars where people went to drink. called so because people had to be quiet about it. knock on the door, say a password or show a card, and youre in. Flappers: flapper girls had short bob hair, short dresses (showing off arms and legs) without corsettes, smoked and drank in public, had a job. Bootlegging: the process of illegally brewing alcohol.
Presenting tomorrow.
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