The New Era (1920s)I. Economy-Business A. Affluence and its Sources 1. Corporate Mergers 2. 2nd Industrial Revolution a. Automobiles & Henry Ford i. Innovations · Assembly-Line Mass Production ii. Social Consequences 3. Other Growth Areas a. Ancillary industries b. Electricity 4. Income Maldistribution · Agricultural Depression II. Middle-Class Culture A. Improved Diet & Hygiene B. Victorian v. New Morality 1. Consumer Culture-Leisure Culture 2. College Youth & the 1st Sexual Revolution III. Mass Media A. Radio · Technology-Content-Consequences B. Movies · Technology-Content-Consequences C. Advertising · Strategies-Consequences IV. Women A. Family · Companionate Marriage B. Higher Education · Women’s Fields C. Work 1. Industrial Jobs ( Service Jobs 2. 20th-Century Trends D. Politics · Suffrage (19th Amendment) 1 2 Great Depression (1929-1941) I. Causes A. Industrial Slowdown B. Maldistribution of Income 1. Agricultural Depression C. Stock Market Crash D. Banking Collapse E. European Depression II. Social Effects A. Statistics B. Women C. African Americans D. Immigration E. Dust-Bowl Migration World War II (1939-1945) I. Consequences A. Geopolitical 1. 60 million dead 2. New weapons 3. Ends Fascist threat 4. Holocaust 5. Democratic Germany-Japan 6. Cold War 7. Collective Security (UN-NATO) 8. Decolonization 9. European Unification B. Domestic 1. Ends Depression 2. G.I. Bill 3. Government-Science 4. Income Tax 5. Japanese Internment II. The Gathering Storm (1930s) A. German Ambitions B. Japanese Ambitions 1. Pearl Harbor C. US Isolationism III. European War A. 3 Factors 1. Soviet Manpower-Economic Revival 2. American Economy 3. Air Supremacy B. Chronology IV. Pacific War A. Midway B. "War Without Mercy" C. Firebombing D. A-Bomb 1 2 New Deal (1933-1938) I. Depression Presidents A. Prelude—Herbert Hoover B. Franklin Delano Roosevelt (FDR) II. Pursuing Recovery A. Public Works Projects 1. Works Progress Administration (WPA)Recovery? III. Enduring Achievements A. Rural America 1. Mortgages + Electricity B. Stabilizing the Economy 1. Stock Market · Securities & Exchange Commission (SEC) 2. Banking · Federal Deposit Insurance Corp (FDIC) 3. Home-Buying · Federal Housing Authority (FHA) C. Creating a Security Net 1. Social Security Act a. Retirement Pensions b. Unemployment Insurance c. Aid to Dependent Children d. Aid to Disabled D. Unionizing Workers 1. Wagner Act · National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) Civil Rights Movement (1954-1970s) I. Preconditions A. Activist black population · Veterans and college students B. Great Migration · WWII and black voting C. Holocaust D. Cold War · Competition for Africa E. Post-War affluence · Baby Boomers F. Mass media · Television G. Social sciences H. Federal intervention · Earl Warren’s Court I. Southern economy · Sharecropping and industry II. Civil Rights Movement: South A. Desegregation 1. Brown v. Board (1954) 2. Montgo ...