Thursday 3/14/13RAP

–What world event happened yesterday? What do you think? Does it impact you?–What role did the U.S. and other countries play in Latin America between world wars?–What was President Roosevelt’s “Good neighbor policy?”

Today:

Notes on The US between wars—18.1 and 18.2

Read Ch. 18.4 –Lenin and Stalin

Ch. 18.1—The Postwar WorldChanging patterns of life:New Trends in culture and style-• Women gained new level of

independence.-suffrage in 1920 with the 19th amendment.– The “flapper” women were dressing

differently, wearing more makeup, and living with more freedoms.

• Heroes-Babe Ruth, Gertrude Ederle, Charles Lindbergh, Red Grange.

• Economic heyday.Technology-• Revolution in transportation

– Automobile and highways crisscrossed America. (Route 66)

– The radio was common in most homes. Playing music, comedy shows, dramas, news and advertisements that encouraged people to shop.

– Home—refrigerators, vacuum cleaners, and electric irons.

– People now had time to go to the movies or out dancing.

Upheaval in the Arts

• Literature-– American writers-

• Ernst Hemingway & F. Scott Fitzgerald described life of the Roaring Twenties. “The Lost Generation”

• Langston Hughes and Zora Neale Hurston -African American writers who belonged to the movement “Harlem Renaissance” described the African American issues in America.

• John Steinbeck-“The Grapes of Wrath”-described the plight of Oklahoma farmers in the 1920s and 30s.

• Painting-– Cubism- an abstract art form that uses

intersecting geometric shapes-Picasso.– Surrealism- art form that used dreamlike

images and unnatural combinations of objects.

• Music and Dance– Jazz- in the U.S.-a mixture of West African

rhythms and American folk songs.– Modern ballet- modern dance mixed with

classical ballet.• Architecture

– Geometric concrete and glass structures– Frank Lloyd Wright-blended his structures

with their natural surroundings. Houses seemed to grow out of the ground.

• Popular Culture– Hollywood production dominated the movie

screens.– People flocked to movie theatres for 10

cent movies.• “The Jazz Singer” was the first talking movie

—1927.– Dance bands were popular—Count Basie,

Duke Ellington, Artie Shaw and their swing bands.

– Youth changed styles, were consumers, and led people in a new attitude.

Western Democracies Ch. 18.2

U.S.• Congress did not ratify the Treaty of

Versailles – Rejected the League of Nations –

many thought it would bring U.S. into future wars.

• Boom to depression– Buying on credit, playing the stock

market, better standard of living– Farmers were hurting –

overproduction, slow demand– Stock market crash in October of

1929.• People lost everything

– Banks failed – people lost their money

– People were losing jobs; people not spending money; no faith in market or business

– Dust Bowl—lack of rain; overgrazing of farm animals; improper farming techniques; wind roaring through.

• New Deal– Franklin Roosevelt

• Plan to ease the suffering of people and get business running again.– Public work projects-building roads, dams, electrical plants, bridges, etc.

• Foreign Affairs– Disarmament

• Reduction of military weapons

– Kellogg – Briand Pact: denounced war as a means of settling disputes. 14 nations signed.

• No power of enforcement

Great Britain after WWI• G.B. forced to borrow heavily

from the U.S. after WWI.– G.B. became a debtor nation---U.S.

became a creditor nation.– U.S. and Japan gained many British

overseas markets.– By 1921, 2 million workers lost their

jobs.• Dominions

– Canada and Australia became independent states

– Commonwealth of nations-all equal– Ireland---the largely Protestant north

remained joined to Great Britain, BUT the Catholic southern part of Ireland became a dominion known as the Irish Free State.

• Many radicals revolted wanting all of Ireland to be free and by 1937 Ireland became independent and a president replaced the British monarch as the head of state.

France after WWI• Severe economic problems• High unemployment• Government nearly bankrupt• Extremist groups rose up causing

more political instability in the country.

• Communists and socialists struggled for power against fascists.

• France government supported the League of Nations

• Also, sought friendly relations with the new German Weimar Republic---signed an agreement for lasting peace.

• Built a series of fortifications 200 miles long that was called the Maginot Line.– Stretch of concrete bunkers and

trenches stretched along the border of Germany.

– French leaders boasted that it could never be crossed, but they failed to remember that Germany had – in the past – come through Belgium.

– It was virtually undefended along the border of Belgium.

Why do you think democracy was able to survive in the U.S., Great Britain, and

France after WWI?• Answer this question in your notes.

• Discuss with the people near you, then with the class.

Read Lenin and StalinCh. 18.4

• As you read about Lenin and Stalin please take notes on the following:– Describe Lenin’s leadership of the Soviet Union.

• NEP—describe it

– Describe the fight for control of the Soviet Union by Trotsky and Stalin.

– Describe Stalin’s leadership of the Soviet Union.• Fiver Year Plan• Dictatorship• Purges• The Comintern

**Who was a better leader for the Soviet Union? Why?