Interwar America

• Geschiedenis
• Middelbare school
• vwo
• Leerjaar 3

Put the images in the right chronological order

The USA before the war

- Isolationist

- Monroe doctrine

- Still a very agricultural economy

Isolationism vs globalism

- Loans for foreign countries

- High trade tariffs for foreign goods

- "Buy American!"

- Industrial & argricultural production rises

Roaring twenties

- Huge economic growth

- American consumers bought new luxury goods
- Cars, refrigirators, hair dryers, radios

- New culture: cinema & music

Which new music became popular during the 1920s?

1. Ska
2. Jazz
3. Progressive grindcore
4. Rythem & blues

Endless possibilities

- A new way of living: consumption society

- New production methods lowered prices

- Loans for those who still couldn't afford it.

- New products gave status

The assembly line

- Division of labour

- Each worker has a small task

- Product moves through factory

- Worker stays in one place

Henry Ford

- "The Model T, available in any color as long as it's black"

- Pioneered the assembly line

- Kept costs down

- The Model T was the only Ford car until 1926

By the late 1920s every [...] cars worldwide were owned in the USA

1. Four out of ten
2. Six out of ten
3. Eight out of ten
4. Nine out of ten

US women's rights

- 1920: women get the vote

- 1923: men & women get equal rights under the law

- 1932: first female senator is elected

- 1932: The National Recovery Act

Temperance league

- Alcohol causes 'loose morals'

- but also violent men

- Prohibition enacted in 1920

Prohibition was a plan by

1. Christian organisations
2. Feminists
3. Both of these groups
4. Neither of these groups

It was very succesful

Depression looms

- Farming production increased due to mechanisation

- During the war farmers needed to produce for the army

- After the war these incomes evaporated

- Mechanisation was paid with bank loans

The Bonus Army