HIS271Y1 Lecture : Interwar Period.pdf
17 Jul 2013
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The influenza epidemic of 1918: major u epidemic, known as the spanish flu even though it has nothing to do with the spanish, after the epidemic is over more people die than in the war. The roaring twenties: this is a decade that sees a dramatic change in american lives, many want to return to a time when these changes never took places. Dirty 30s: many women are not going to identify with appers, but they are challenging accepted social mores. Lost generation: the lost generation is the coda to the jazz age -- they are speaking of the immense dislocation of the war, a term used for people who believes that society is beyond repair, it is broken. Birth of the nation : the klan is not only anti-black, but also anti-catholic, anti-immigrant, anti-new. Dirty 30s: the prevailing ideology was that you don"t really meddle with the market too much -- this wasn"t working.
