POLITICS, ECONOMICS, AND SOCIETY FOLLOWING THE GREAT WAR

America in the Roaring Twenties

US Presidents

Warren G. Harding 1921-1923

Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929

Herbert Hoover 1929-1933

Return to Normalcy

Consumer Culture

Result of Mass Production

Assembly Line32% Boost in

Productivity8% Wage IncreaseAutomobilesRadioPhonograph

Leisure Time

Welfare Capitalism Shorter Work DaysVacation TimeProfessional SportsAmusement ParksRadio ProgramsSilent Movies

Prohibition

Pleasure Without Guilt

18th Amendment Volstead Act

SpeakeasyOrganized CrimeAl Capone

The New Woman

19th AmendmentFlapperWomen Join the Work

ForceWomen of the South

and Midwest

African-Americans

Harlem RenaissancePlight of African-

Americans Largely Ignored

Racial Discrimination and Segregation

Rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan

Depression

Stock Prices Rose 400%

Stocks Bought and Sold on Credit

October 29,1929 Black Tuesday

Bank FailuresHigh UnemploymentEconomy Lost Over

Half its Value

1920’s Considered

Time of change and economic prosperityChanges were not shared equallyAmerican isolationismThe Great DepressionFDR and the New DealRise of totalitarian states in Italy, Japan,

Russia, and Germany