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The USA in the first half of the 20th century - Coggle Diagram
The USA in the first half of the 20th century
AMERICAN WRITERS
Poetry: Robert Frost
Literature of the Great Depression: Steinbeck, Faulkner
The Lost Generation: E. Hemingway, F.S. Fitzgerald
The Harlem Renaissance. Afro-American literature (Langston Hughes)
THE JAZZ AGE
radical changes in behaviour
"Roaring Twenties": cars, parties, dancing, music
the 1920s
excitement and contradictions
UNTIL 1929: ECONOMIC BOOM
massive industrial output
mineral resources
agricultural prosperity
BUT spread of poverty in the industrial areas
USA = richest country in the world
FOREIGN POLICY
Alaska bought from Russia
interest in Cuba
annexion of Hawaii
supported independence of Panama
imperial expansion
WWI: isolationism policy until 1917
WALL STREET CRASH AND GREAT DEPRESSION
Great Depression: ruined businesses, unemployment, hunger
drought in the Great Plains (Dust Bowl), migration to California
1932 Roosvelt's New Deal: programme of reforms
1929: Stock Market collapsed - Black Thursday