3.  Radio – most popular electronic device
American’s share entertainment, pastimes

1900’s
Invented 1910’s
military
1800’s hobbyists
use

4.  1920– hobbyist in Pittsburg started playing
records over the radio
Listening caught on

 Westinghouse realized people would buy
radios if there were programs to listen to
Started first corporate radio station KDKA

 Hundreds of radio stations were created
 Technical improvements increased popularity

5.  Exploded in popularity during 1920’s
Short, silent films

 1927 – The Jazz Singer
First movie with sound

“Talkies”

 1927 Walt Disney’s Steamboat Willie
Mickey Mouse became a star

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REbZO82tkg

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6.  By end of 1920’s Americans bought over
100 million movie tickets a week
 U.S. population = 123 million

7.  Movies
led to movie stars – a new group of
American heroes
Charlie Chaplin – silent films

Rudolph Valentino – the hunk

Clara Bow – sex symbol

Mary Pickford – America’s sweetheart


8. Charlie Chaplin Rudolph Valentino

9. Mary Pickford Clara Bow

10.  Charles Lindbergh
First person to

complete
transatlantic flight
 Flew single engine
plane from NY to Paris
non-stop
Most people believed

you would need a large
plane with many
engines
Removed all the weight

he could
Became a beloved

hero

11.  Amelia Earhart
First woman to fly

across the Atlantic
 1937 tried to fly
around the world
Disappeared over

Pacific Ocean
From Atchison, KS


12. Red Grange

College Football

“The Galloping Ghost”

Helen Wills

Tennis

Won 31 majors

Bobby Jones

Won golf’s first Grand Slam

All in same calendar year

Babe Ruth

Baseball


14.  Modernism
THEMES:

Disillusionment

Disconnection

Loneliness

Emptiness

 African American Literature
 Tales of WWI
 Women’s Literature
 Literature about booming business

15.  F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Great Gatsby

 SinclairLewis
 Edna St. Vincent
Millay
 Ernest Hemingway
WWI

A lot of modernists
A Farewell to Arms

part of the Lost
 John Dos Passos Generation
Three Soldiers
 Large group of

 T.S. Eliot American authors,
poets, artists who
The Wasteland

lived in Europe after
WWI

16.  Art Deco
movement in visual

arts, interior design
and architecture
Lavish, rich,

colorful
Shaped by “all the

nervous energy
stored up and
expended in the
War.”

18.  G!SPRITE’s and re-do terms by Thursday
2/19