HIST 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Rudolph Valentino, Alice Paul, Treaty Of Versailles
16 Oct 2016
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The aftermath of wwi and the roaring twenties. Fou(cid:374)di(cid:374)g of the league of natio(cid:374)s, (cid:271)ut : ussr and most colonized nations excluded, a(cid:374)d the u(cid:374)ited tates does(cid:374)"t appro(cid:448)e the treaty of joi(cid:374) the league. Dept. of justice crackdown on radicalism led by a. mitchell palmer and j. edgar hoover. Republicans control the presidency: harding, coolidge, and hoover. Corruption in the harding white house: the teapot dome scandal. The (cid:862)roari(cid:374)g t(cid:449)e(cid:374)ties(cid:863: americans were richer than before. Household appliances, 1900-1930: becoming more common. Limits to prosperity: economic concentration, uneven income gains, agricultural depression. Emergence of the modern celebrity: athletes (babe ruth, jack dempsey, singers (enrico caruso, louis armstrong, duke ellington, hollywood stars (charlie chaplin, douglas fairbanks, rudolph valentino, lillian. Charles lindbergh and the spirit of st. louis. Alice paul and the equal rights amendment (era: there is nothing in the constitution that says everything has to be equal, came through slightly after the 60s. Harlem in the 1920s: big african american authors.
