Lengua y Cultura II

1. President
Thomas
Woodrow
Wilson
1913-1921
Political party:
Democratic

2. RED SCARE
PALMER RAIDS
1919-1920
“a strong fear of communism”
“rapid surprise attacks on an
enemy by troops, aircraft, or
other armed forces.”

3. THE
NINETEENTH
AMENDMENT
“an article added to the USA
Constitution”
in 1920 it is ratified, granting
women the right to vote.

4. FLAPPERS
“define the modern
perspective
of the 1920s.”

5. JAZZ AGE “a post-World War I movement in
the 1920s from which jazz music
and dance emerged”
The King & Carter Jazzing
Orchestra
Cab Calloway Bessie Smith

6. President
Warren G.
Harding
1921-1923
Political party:
Republican

7. RESTRICTING IMMIGRATION
RAISE TARIFFS
ON IMPORTS
LOWER TAXES

8. BLACK AMERICANS
PROHIBITION
THE
KU
KLUX
KLAN

9. THE BOOM YEARS
• AMERCAN MANUFACTURERS PROSPERED
FORDNEY–MCCUMBER TARIFF
AND HAWLEY–SMOOT TARIFF
• DEMANDS ON GOODS BECAUSE OF A FLOOD
OF ADVERTISING
LOANS AND CREDITS
• HIGH WAGES
• NEWER PRODUCTS
• MASS PRODUCTION METHODS

10. President John Calvin
Coolidge Jr.
1923-1929
Political party:
Republican
THE MOTOR INDUSTRY
THE LEASURE INDUSTRY

11. THE WALL
STREET CRASH
1929
KELLOGG PACT
1928
1925

12. UNITED KINGDOM
PRIME MINISTERS
1920-1930

13. David Lloyd George
( 1918-1922) Liberal Party

14. • In 1920 he approved the Unemployment Insurance Act.
• In 1921, the Education Act
raised the school leaving age to 14.
GREAT STRIKE

15. • In 1921 the attempt to make lesbianism illegal failed.
BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS
WOMEN MARCHING
FOR THEIR RIGHT TO
VOTE.

16. Andrew Bonar Law
(1922-1923) Conservative Party

17. • In 1922, he reduced rent taxes.
• Bonar Law retired because of cancer in 1923.
• He died six months later.

18. Stanley Baldwin ( 1923-1924)
Conservative Party

19. • In 1924, Baldwin resigned.

20. Ramsay Macdonald (1924-1935)
Labour Party

21. • He was called on to form a minority Labour government.
GENERAL STRIKE
General Strike
• In 1930, the Education Act raised the school leaving age to
15.
• The Wall Street Crash triggered the Great Depression in
the 1930s.

22. Hipólito Yrigoyen - Pelagio Luna
1916-1922
(1916-1922)

23. SEMANA TRÁGICA
• The “Semana Trágica” was a serie of riots and massacres that
took place in Buenos Aires during the week of January 7, 1921.
• The conflict began as a strike at the Vasena metal industry, in
demand for better working conditions.
• The conflict caused the repression by the goverment, the police
and the Army, who killed, arrested, tortured thousands of
people

24. Exportations
CORN
WHEAT
Oil Politics

25. PATAGONIA REBELDE (1920 – 1921)
• “Patagonia Rebelde” is the name given to the struggle by sindicalist workers.
• This event took place in the Argentine Patagonia, Santa Cruz.
• It began as a strike against the exploitation of workers.
• At the end of the conflict, about 1500 workers had been killed or shot in combat.

26. MARCELO T. DE ALVEAR – ELPIDIO GONZALEZ
(1922-1928)
Marcelo T. De
Alvear

27. EXPORTATIONS
SEEDS OF
FLAX
OAT
MEAT
INDUSTRY

28. HIPOLITO YRIGOYEN - ENRIQUEZ MARTINEZ
(1928-1930)

29. INFAMOUS DECADE
• This is the name given to a period of time that began in 1930.
• This is the coup that overthrew the president Hipólito Yrigoyen.
• It finished in June 4, 1943.
• This period was characterised by electoral fraud, persecution of
the political opposition and generalised government corruption.
• The four presidents of the period.
• Ramón Castillo was the last president of
“La década infame”.