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The American Dilemma

20th Century Fears

Threadgill

The Roaring Twenties

The Roaring 20s

At the end of World War I in 1918, the American People went wild with their desperation to erase the horrors of wartime.

It was a decade of decadence, excess, bootlegged liquor, flapper girls, and big money.

However, big spending can only happen for so long...

The Lost Generation

"The Roaring Twenties were the period of that Great American Prosperity which was built on shaky foundations."

"Everywhere was the atmosphere of a long debauch that had to end; the orchestras played too fast, the stakes were too high at the gambling tables, the players were so empty, so tired, secretly hoping to vanish together into sleep and ... maybe wake on a very distant morning and hear nothing, whatever, no shouting or crooning, find all things changed."

The Roaring 20s

Black Thursday, 1929

The Great Depression

In October of 1929, the stock market crashed in what was the worst economic disaster still in our nation's history. This sparked the Great Depression, wherein nearly 12 million Americans (25% of the population at the time) was unemployed.

This spawned not only a period of extreme economic deprivation, but created a national hopelessness state of mind.

Title

America in WW2

The beginnings of WW2 started with Hitler's ascension to Chancellor in 1933, but America did not involve themselves in WW2 until a direct attack by Japanese forces at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in December 1941.

The war lasted another 4 years with a total of over 405,000 American deaths.

World War II

The Holocaust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lpTceEE3d8

Interview - surviving Auschwitz

The Holocaust

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EOM_CxAKB_Y

Inside Auschwitz Tour

MAP

After WW2

The Soviet Union and Communism, was viewed as a direct opposition to democracy. Fear of unchecked Soviet aggression was a hallmark of this period, though we had been allies just a decade before.

Senator Joseph McCarthy spread fear of Communist aggression in the U.S., sparking a period of paranoia and terror called "The Red Scare."

Face-Off with Communism

The 1950s

The Age of Anxiety

In some ways, the invention of the atomic bomb fueled this anxiety - the question persisted: when will be be blown up?

Schools regularly held air raid drills and the threat of Communist spies led to wild accusations of espionage based on rumors.

Writing as Criticism

The Crucible

The author of "The Crucible" - Arthur Miller - was himself accused of sympathizing with the Communist cause. People accused as such were often looked at as traitors and many of them lost their jobs, even if the accusations came with little or no backing evidence.

Miller wrote his play about the Salem Witch Trials, and compared it to the Red Scare and McCarthyism.

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