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Period: to
America in the Great Depression
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WWI Ends
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Roaring Twenties
-Economy flourished
-People invested in stock market
-Bought on credit
-Time of big bands
-Prohibition
-Gangsters such as Al Capone -
Shotgun Cheatham's Last Night Above Grond
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Period: to
A Long Way From Chicago
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Stock Market Crashes / Great Depression Begins
-Stock market crashed
-"Black Tuesday"
-Valentines day massacre (gangsters) -
Economy Slows
-"The Great Depression"
-Banks failed
-People lost jobs and homes
-"Hoovervilles" - hobo villages
-Breadlines
-Drought began in Great Plains
-Golden age of radio -
The Mouse in the Milk
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Freight Car Migrants
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A One-Woman Crime Wave
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The Day of Judgement
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FDR Elected
-"The New Deal" job corps
-Prohibition ends
-"Happy Days are Here Again" -popular song -
New Deal / Public Works Project
-"The New Deal" job corps
-Prohibition ends
-"Happy Days are Here Again" -popular song -
The Phantom Breakman
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Dust Bowl
-Drought = Dust bowl
-People headed to California for jobs -
Things with Wings
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Centennial Summer
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FDR Reelected to 2nd Term
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USA Enters WWII / Great Depression Ends
-Pearl Harbor in Hawai'i bombed
-U.S. enters WWII
-Men and women have jobs
-End of The Great Depression -
The Troop Train
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WWII Ends
-WWII ends
-Allies win
-Troops came home
-Baby boom of 1950's begins
