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The Double Standard
In the years before world war 1, when men "courted" women, they pursued only women they intended to marry. In the 1920s, however, casual dating became increasingly accepted. Even so, a double standard-a set of principles granting greater sexual freedom to men than to women-required women to observe stricter standards of behavior than men did. As a result, many women were pulled back and forth between the old standards and the new. -
African-American Writers
Missouri-born Langston Hughes was the movement's best-known poet. Many of Hughe's 1920s poems described the difficult lives of working-class African Americans. Some of this poems moved to the tempo of jazz and the blues. -
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Roaring 20's
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The Scopes Trial
The trial opened on July 10, 1925, and almost overnight became a national sensation. Darrow called Bryan as an expert on the Bible-the contest that everyone had been waiting for. To handle the throngs of Bryan supporters, Judge Raulston moved the court outside, to a platform built under the maple trees. -
Lindbergh's Flight
On May 20, 1927, he took off near New York City in the spirit of St. Louis, flew up the coast to Newfoundland, and headed over the Alantic. The weather was so bad, Lindbergh recalled, that "the average altitude for the whole... second 1,000 miles of the [Atlantic] flight was less than 100 feet." After 33 hours and 29 minutes, Lindbergh set down at Le Bourget airfield outside of paris, france, amid becaons, shearchlights. -
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The Great Depression
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Hawley-Smooth Tariff Act
Established the highest protective tariff in the United States history. It was designed to protect American farmers and manufactures from foreign competition. -
Bonus Army
An incident further damaged Hoover's image and public morale. That spring, between 10,000 and 20,000 world war 1 veterans and their families arrived in Washington D.C., from various parts of the country. They called themselves the Bonus Expeditionary force, or the bonus Army. -
Hollywood Helps Mobilization
Hitler, beast of Berlin, produced in 1939, was one of the most popular hiss-and -boo films. Viewing audiences watched in rage as the Nazis conducted one horrible act after another. -
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World War II
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Japanese Americans
On March 3, 1942, a Japanese-American mother carries her sleeping daughter during their relocation to an internment camp. -
The Battle of Midway
Admiral Chester Nimitz. the comander of American naval forces in thepacific, moved to defend the island. On june 3, 1942, his scout planes found the japanese fleet. The Americans sent torpedo planes and dive bomders to the attack. The Japanese were caught with their planes still on the decks of their carriers. -
The North African Front
Dwight D. Eisenhower became the American general in the war.
