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2 sty 2020 · The beginning of the Roaring ’20s featured new rights for women, including the right to vote, daring flapper outfits and cigarette smoking. It also included Prohibition, which led to the rise of...
24 maj 2019 · Updated on May 24, 2019. The Roaring '20s were marked by prosperity after World War I, drastic changes for women that included the right to vote and freedom from corsets and long, structured clothing to a more modern style of dress. Ladies bobbed their hair and displayed a more liberated demeanor.
28 paź 2020 · As another election looms amid economic and social turmoil, and another pandemic claims American lives, a look back at the 1920s may be instructive for the 2020s.
30 kwi 2020 · The "Great Migration" of African Americans from the South to Northern cities upset some White Americans, and the Ku Klux Klan was at its most popular in the 1920s. In addition, xenophobia, or a dislike or prejudice against people from different countries, spread across parts of the U.S.
11 lut 2020 · Seeing the Big Picture: U.S. Foreign Policy 1920-2020 Summary. In this lesson students analyze primary source documents and a timeline of foreign affairs and domestic events to understand the role of U.S. foreign policy in world events and its impact on events in the U.S.
The 1920s Government, Politics, and Law: Topics in the News. ISOLATIONISM AND INFIGHTING. PROHIBITION. GOVERNMENT AND BUSINESS. GOVERNMENT AND AGRICULTURE. NATIONAL POLITICS: THE ELECTIONS OF THE 1920S. THE TEAPOT DOME SCANDAL. THE HALL-MILLS MURDER CASE. BUCK V. BELL: EUGENICS AND PUBLIC POLICY.
After the war, the U.S. sponsored the creation of the United Nations — headquartered in the U.S. — to help prevent future wars. And, in 1949, the U.S. formed NATO (the North Atlantic Treaty Organization) to oppose the now aggressive Soviet Union.
