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Period between 1918 - 1929
Jazz Age
- End of World War I
- Phobition (1920 - 1936)
- Birth of consumerism
- Technology
- Women's suffrage
New Technologies:
Affordable car
Radio
Washing machine
Vacuum cleaner
Life
Culture:
Speakeasies
VIbrant night life
Jazz
Flappers
Art deco
Jazz
Charlston and Lindy hop
Louise Armstrong Duke Ellington
Slang
dough - money
vamp - seductive woman that easily manipulates men
sheik - charming handsome man
and how - affirmative
putting on the ritz - dressing fashionably. Ritz hotels
ragamuffin - dirty person
wet blanket - buzz kill
fried/bent/zazzled - drunk
heebie jeebies - shaking
bee’s knees - excelent
you got it - sex appeal
beef - problem
Chicago overcoat - a coffin
bump off - dead
hot - stolen
F. Scott FItzgerald
- Born in 1896 in St. Paul Minesota to an upper middle class family
- Atended Princeton University
- Met Ginevra King (southern belle). Rejection
- 1917 Dropped out of university to join the war
- During the war he met Zelda Sayre (southern belle) Rejection
- 1919 - moved to new york city
- 1920 - publishing of "This side of paradise" Huge hit
- Marriage to Zelda
-1925 - Publishing of "The Great Gatsby"
- 1929 The great dpression
- 1929 - Cliff incident. Zelda institutionalized
- 1930s - bankruptcy
- 1904 - death of a heart due to alcoholism.
Zelda Sayre Ginevra King
End of the Roaring 20s
In 1929 the stock market collapsed starting an economic meltdown. The reasons are
- Stock market speculation
- Weak banking
- overproduction
It resulted in
- mass unemployment
- widespread poverty
- social unrest
- plummeting of trade and production
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