BBC GCSE Bitesize Science - Chemical Reactions
The United States began the 20th century as a country with enormous potential, and we ended the century as the world's only superpower, however, there are two ways to look at this powerful nation in the 1920s - as a rich country with a high standard of living, big cars and big houses, or as a country with many people living in poverty and enduring a terrible racism.
Although the United States did not enter World War until April 1917, the conflict has cast a shadow over the US company that would take some time to spend had a brief recession in the early 1920, but as the decade progressed, the economy booming and America began at the age of consumption - many Americans bought cars, radios, refrigerators, etc. Major cities like New York and Chicago have developed rapidly and skyscraper building like the Empire State Building, which was completed in 1931, seemed to show confidence in American society.
At the same time, many Americans wanted to have fun as much as they could perhaps by listening to the new jazz music or doing new dances like the Charleston and black bottom crowds flocked to see the stars film like Charlie Chaplin and baseball stars such as Babe Ruth, emphasis on fun and spend money led in the 1920s called crazy years.
However, for many Americans, the 1920s were a decade of overall poverty groups such as African Americans, women, and farmers do not benefit from the prosperity of the Roaring Twenties Over 60 percent of Americans living just below the poverty line life was especially hard for African-Americans in the Deep South Deep South __gVirt_NP_NN_NNPS<__ région sud-est des Etats-Unis, comprenant les États de l'Alabama, la Géorgie, la Louisiane, le Mississippi et la Caroline du Sud États où la majorité des noirs a enduré une combinaison de la pauvreté et le racisme Bien que certaines femmes ont pu profiter de plus d'indépendance et de porter la dernière mode, la réalité est que la plupart des femmes étaient mal payés et travaillaient dans des rôles tels que produits de nettoyage ou serveuses.
BBC GCSE Bitesize The overview 1920, 1920.