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1. THE ROARING TWENTIES

   FLAPPERS, BATHTUB GIN AND THE CHARLESTON
2. THE GIBSON GIRL1890-1920 With her hair piled atop her head and a waist so tiny as to defy belief, the Gibson Girl represented a serene self-confidence that could surmount any problem. The envy of all who knew her, the Gibson Girl remained aloof of her surroundings but not to the extent of haughtiness. She was at once remote but yet accessible. The "Gibson Man," equally as handsome and self-assured as the Gibson Girl, provided her perfect partner. The Gibson Girl and the Gibson Man in some ways represent the "Barbie and Ken" dolls of the early 1900s as icons of popular Culture.
3. WWIEat drink and be merry for tomorrow we die In late June 1914, Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was assassinated by a Serbian nationalist in Sarajevo, Bosnia. An escalation of threats and mobilization orders followed the incident, leading by mid-August to the outbreak of World War I, which pitted Germany, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire (the so-called Central Powers) against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy and Japan (the Allied Powers). The Allies were joined after 1917 by the United States. The four years of the Great War--as it was then known--saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction, thanks to grueling trench warfare and the introduction of modern weaponry such as machine guns, tanks and chemical weapons. By the time World War I ended in the defeat of the Central Powers in November 1918, more than 9 million soldiers had been killed and 21 million more wounded. Tragically, the instability caused by World War I would help make possible the rise of Nazi leader Adolf Hitler and would, only two decades later, lead to a second devastating international conflict. 
4. W w I soldiers World War I started. The young men of the world were being used as cannon fodder for an older generation's ideals and mistakes. The attrition rate in the trenches left few with the hope that they would survive long enough to return home. When the war was over, the survivors went home and the world tried to return to normalcy. Unfortunately, settling down in peacetime proved more difficult than expected. WWI Firsts @history.com
5. Flappers!! In the 1920s, a new woman was born. She smoked, drank, danced, and voted. She cut her hair, wore make-up, and went to petting parties. She was giddy and took risks. She was a flapper.
6. Flapper image The Flappers' image consisted of drastic and shocking changes in women's clothing and hair. Nearly every article of clothing was trimmed down and lightened in order to make movement easier. To look more like a boy, women tightly wound their chest with strips of cloth in order to flatten it.9 The waists of flapper clothes were dropped to the hipline. She wore stockings - made of rayon ("artificial silk") starting in 1923 - which the flapper often wore rolled over a garter belt.10
7. JAZZ BABY One Connecticut damsel gives the following recipe for the flapper:— Two bare knees, two thinner stockings, one shorter skirt, two lipsticks, three powder puffs, 132 cigarettes, and three boyfriends, with eight flasks between them."
8. THE CHARLESTON The dance that epitomizes the 1920's is the Charleston. The Charleston was introduced to the public in the Ziegfield Follies of 1923, and became so popular that even today, it is still a symbol for the 1920s Jazz Age. The Charleston is characterized by outward heel kicks combined with an up and down movement achieved by bending and straightening the knees in time to the music. Flappers with their knock knees, crossing hands, and flying beads danced the Charleston.
9. prohibition Prohibition began on January 16, 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment went into effect. Federal Prohibition agents (police) were given the task of enforcing the law. Even though the sale of alcohol was illegal, alcoholic drinks were still widely available at "speakeasies" and other underground drinking establishments. Many people also kept private bars to serve their guests. Large quantities of alcohol were smuggled in from Canada, overland and via the Great Lakes. 
10. Prohibition These cards represent clubs both famous and obscure. The card on the upper right would have admitted a partygoer to the glamorous Stork Club in its second home, which it moved into after it had been “raided out” of its first on West 58th Street. The Stork would stay at this East 51stStreet location for only three years before moving up to East 53rd Street, where it would remain until its closing in 1965.
11. Al capone:bootlegger and gangster These underground saloons did a booming business. Keeping them supplied was the occupation for many thousands of rumrunners, bootleggers, and beer barons, who were forced to work beyond the law. All too often, rivalries and differences of opinion resulted in open warfare and gangland murders. Thanks to wartime technology, they had new and deadly weapons at their disposal, such as hand grenades, handy for blowing up the competition, not-to-mention machine guns and faster getaway cars.
12. BATH TUB GIN The term bathtub gin often conjures up glamorous images of flapper girls, speakeasies and the Roaring Twenties. In reality, bathtub gin was the end result of cheap grain alcohols and flavorings such as juniper berries allowed to steep in a tub for several hours or even days. Because the 18th Amendment specifically prohibited the sale or manufacture of distilled alcohol, many producers of bathtub gin were forced to use denatured alcohol which may or may not have been thoroughly processed. A number of party-goers died during the 1920s after drinking contaminated bathtub gin.
13. THE END OF THE ROARING TWENTIES
14. “the great crash” Black Tuesday, 1929 THE STOCK MARKET COLLAPSE On Tuesday, October 29, the flood of sales continued. Historians have called this "the most devastating day in the history of markets." A gloomy quiet pervaded the trading floor. The week before, traders ran across the floor in panic, trying to submit their orders before prices dropped further. That day, however, the stock exchange was as dour as a funeral parlor. A reporter from the New York Times described the somber scene: "Orderly crowds lined up before each post, talking in subdued tones, without any pushing." In that last week of October 1929, the stock market began a momentous decline that came to be known as "The Great Crash."
15. The great depression begins…. After nearly a decade of optimism and prosperity, the United States was thrown into despair on Black Tuesday, October 29, 1929, the day the stock market crashed and the official beginning of the Great Depression. As stock prices plummeted with no hope of recovery, panic struck. Masses and masses of people tried to sell their stock, but no one was buying. Consumers began to curb their spending, refraining from purchasing such things as luxury goods. This lack of consumer spending caused additional businesses to cut back wages or, more drastically, to lay off some of their workers. Some businesses couldn't stay open even with these cuts and soon closed their doors, leaving all their workers unemployed. Then came the Dust Bowl…America didn’t recover until the 1940s and WW II.
16. The roaring twenties WORK CITED http://history1900s.about.com/od/1930s/p/greatdepression.htm http://www.history.com/topics/roaring-twenties http://history1900s.about.com/od/1920s/a/flappers.htm http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-bathtub-gin.htm