Fitzgerald became a second lieutenant‚ and was stationed at Camp Sheridan‚ in Montgomery‚ Alabama. While there he fell in love with a seventeen year old named Zelda Sayre and she agreed to marry Fitzgerald but she postponed their wedding until he proved that he could make money. He was able to convince Zelda in marrying him after earning some fame and money from his novel “This Slide of Paradise” in 1920. When his most famous novel‚ “The Great Gatsby” was published in 1925 he portrayed Jay Gatsby
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As men left to fight in the Great War in the late 1910’s‚ women in the U.S. and all over Europe found themselves necessary to make the homefront function‚ i.e. women had to fill the holes in industry and social life that the absence of men created for them. It is at this time that the flapper appears; a new kind of woman with short‚ bobbed hair‚ shorter skirts and freer clothes to match her new‚ freer lifestyle. It is no wonder that the vote was given to women during this time‚ as the idea of gender
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Women in the 1920’s Before World War II no one believed women had a place in the military‚ yet women overcame this and helped the United States reach victory. Women felt they needed and wanted to get involved in the war instead of sitting at home‚ taking care of the children‚ cooking dinner‚ and cleaning the house. Women joined military support organizations like the WACs‚ the WAVES and the WASPs. These kinds of organizations contributed immensely toward the United States war effort. Women felt
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Gangsterism In The 1920’S “The Roaring Twenties‚”; what a perfect aphorism. It was certainly roaring with music and dance‚ but it also was roaring with gangsters. In the aspect of gangsterism‚ the thirties were also roaring. Americans in this time period tolerated criminals‚ especially those involved in bootlegging. Bootlegging is the smuggling of illegal substances. Bootlegging could have possibly been tolerated because of the recent outlaw of alcohol during this time period‚ known as the Prohibition
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Banks in the 1920s were built around a system of credit and mutual dependency with banks largely relying on the stability of others incase of emergency. Banks had to be registered with the National Reserve to operate with roughly 30‚000 National Reserve banks housing different portions of the country’s financial reserves. Each bank in turn also had its own reserves to account for the various loans and issued currency. With this system banks were intended to cooperate and move money as needed to other
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Slang of the 1920s A 1. ab-so-lute-ly: affirmative‚ yes 2. absent treatment: dancing with a timid partner 3. air tight: very attractive 4. Airedale: an unattractive man 5. alarm clock: a chaperone 6. all wet: incorrect 7. And how!: I strongly agree! 8. ankle: to walk‚ i.e.. "Let’s ankle!" 9. applesauce: flattery‚ nonsense‚ i.e.. "Aw‚ applesauce!" 10. Attaboy!: well done!; also‚ Attagirl! B 11. baby: sweetheart. Also denotes something of high value or respect. 12. baby grand: heavily
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Christian Temperance Union. This group was lead by Francis Willard. The goals of the Women’s Christian Temperance union were to lobby for federal aid for education‚ free school lunches‚ unions for workers‚ an eight-hour workday‚ work relief for the poor‚ municipal sanitation and boards of health‚ national transportation‚ strong anti-rape laws‚ protections against child abuse and of course prohibition. The root of Willard’s argument for female suffrage was based on the platform of "Home Protection"
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where the rumbling noise was coming from‚ and in his backyard he found an airplane and a young woman by the name of Amelia Earhart. The man drove her five miles away to the nearest telephone‚ and over a quick phone call to New York‚ she proclaimed‚ “I did it!” After 15 hours and 2‚026 miles‚ Amelia Earhart had set a new record (Bailey‚ 201). Amelia Earhart’s flight as the first aviatrix to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean was a defining event in American history because it was a feat in the field of
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differences between USSR and the West can be divided into two groups; one is from the political point of view‚ and the other can be the difference in economic system on both sides. After the Bolshevik Revolution‚ under the rule of Lenin‚ the first socialist country was created‚ the USSR. The idea of socialism was developed through Marxist-Leninist theory‚ which is the building of the material base for communist under the dictatorship of the proletariat. Under the theory of socialism in USSR‚ everyone in
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It can be argued that the NEP dealt successfuly to some the problems it was designed to solve in the period 1921-4 but there were limitations to its sucess. Once the victory had been achieved against the Whites in 1921‚ Lenin began to focus on rebuilding the Russian economy as war communism had caused industrial and agricultural production to decrease. The decrease in agriculutrual produce had been a particular problem as it resulted in a fame. Moreover‚ the Kronstadt rising made Lenin aware that
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