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AMERICA BEFORE THE JAZZ AGE
Events in American History
that Created the Roaring Twenties
AMERICA
AT
WAR!!
America looks hungrily at its neighbor$
 The American Press…Yellow Journalism
 War with Spain…Remember the Maine!
 A “Nice Little War” 1898
 The Myth of the Rough Riders
 The Emergence of Theodore Roosevelt…a teddy
bear of a president

AMERICA EMERGING AS A WORLD POWER
 The
Power Brokers
 Age of Invention
 Isolationism
 Political Aspirations
 American Military
WORLD WAR
 Empires
& Emerging
Nations
 Germany v. France &
England
 American
Expeditionary Forces
Go “Over There”
 American Forces
Turn the Tide
POLITICAL MANEUVERING
 President
Wilson
Travels to Europe
 14 Points
 League of Nations
 U.S. Senate Shuts
the Door
 Wilson Dies Trying
AIN’T WE GOT FUN...
 The
Jazz Age
 The Roaring 20’s
 Prohibition
 Women Vote
 Fads & Fashions
 Sports…The Babe
 Lucky Lindy
 Politics as Usual
 Rhapsody in Blue
THE GREAT GATSBY
 F.
Scott Fitzgerald
& Zelda Sayre
 Symbols of the 20’s
 Themes