what two popular magazines were found in the 1920's? - Answers readers digest; time
what was the most powerful form of communication in the 1920's? - Answers radio
Gertrude Ederle - Answers swimmer
Helen Wills - Answers tennis player
Andrew "Rube" Foster - Answers baseball player
Babe Ruth - Answers baseball player
What is Charles Lindbergh famous for? - Answers for being the first pilot to fly across the Atlantic
What is the name of Charles Lindbergh's plane? - Answers The Spirit of St. Louis
Where did Lindbergh fly from and to? - Answers from NYC to Newfoundland
What was Lindbergh's nickname? - Answers Lucy Lindy
F. Scott Fitzgerald - Answers Writer and author
The Great Gatsby
T. S. Eliot - Answers Poet and playwright
The Waste Land
Ernest Hemingway - Answers Author
The Sun Also Rises
Sinclair Lewis - Answers Novelist, writer, playwright
Elmer Gantry
What was the name of the group of writers Hemingway, Fitzgerald and Dos Passos belonged to? -
Answers The Lost Generation
What did American painters appeal too? - Answers Americans by recording an America of realities and
dreams
What is Georgia O'Keeffe famous for? - Answers Intensely colored canvases that captured the grandeur
of New York
What was the first major movie with sound? (What was the first words spoken on film?) - Answers The
Jazz Singer
, "Wait a minute."
What was the first animated film with sound? - Answers Steamboat Willie
What is George Gershwin famous for? - Answers Rap City and Blue
what are some major technology and buisness changes of the 1920's? - Answers modern advertising;
automobiles; installment plans; planes
Americans were not aware of the impending debt that was about to ruin the economy. The United
States was acting like they were in a period of wealth; however, they were slowing starting an economic
depression. What is this? - Answers superficial prosperity
what is the installment plan? - Answers A plan that enabled people to buy goods over an extended
period without having to put down a lot of money at the time of purchase; a form of credit
What were some of the advantages of buying on credit? - Answers it helped many citizens in America
who did not have enough money, and it resolved the problem of luring consumers; it also gave people
time to come up with the money
What were some of the disadvantages of buying on credit? - Answers it is what ultimately put the
United States in debt; citizens were spending money that they did not have and it got out of control
In what ways was big business in the 1920s comparable to the flappers? - Answers The big business paid
the flappers to dance because they wanted to attract customers. This would make them more money.
what were the 6 post war trends? - Answers exhaustion; economy; unemployment; cost of living;
navitism; isolationism
who did the cost of living esp increase for? - Answers farmers
prejudice towards foreigners - Answers nativism
america being isolated from global affairs - Answers isolationism
what is the starting point for Americas fear of communism? - Answers the Russian Revolution
attorney general in US during the time after the war; head of apartment of justice; wants to combat
communism; works with the head of the FBI on a "communist witch hunt" - Answers Palmer Raids
an economic and political system based on a single party government ruled by a dictatorship; they want
to equalize wealth and put the government in charge of all the nation's businesses and property -
Answers communism
Italian immigrants; are scared of radicals but are not communists; known anarchists; do not believe in a
strong federal authority - Answers Sacco and Vanzetti