Interwar study guide

• Pandemic


  Influence world wide, higher death and social disruption
• Epidemic


  Influence across small regions, specific to a certain time, affects more people than expected under normal conditions
• Spanish Influenza


  H1N1 virus; a sickness with a highly contagious viral infection of the respiratory passages
• Avian Origins


  • Come from birds
• Who was affected the most by the Spanish Flu?

  • Soldiers
  • Young (18-31) healthy, fit men
• How did WWI help spread the Spanish Influenza?

  Soldiers turning home because the trench has nothing to stop the infection
• The immediate impact of WWI: 8.5 million soldiers were killed, 21 soldiers were wounded, war cost $338 billion, European countries went broke
• Why did many Germans feel resentful after WWI was over?

  The Treaty of Versailles was not fair
• Reparation


  To make amends for a wrong by paying money to another
• The Lost Generation


  A generation of writers and artists that came of age after WWI and after the war people who live in the center of it feeling "lost"
• Interwar Years


  Time between WWI and WWII
• Fantasy

  Imagining things that are not real or impossible
• Disillusionment


  A feeling of disappointment resulting from the discovery that something is not as good as one believed
• Frivolous Lifestyle


  Characterized by lack of seriousness or sense
• Herbert Hoover is the president of the American Republican in 1928
• Overproduction


  The food is overproduction after WWI, this cheap food flooded the markets, lowering farmer's profit and making debt repayment difficult
• Easy Credit


  Borrowing money to pay for something you cannot afford
• Stock Speculation


  Prediction of stock prices increasing or decreasing
• Buying stocks on the margin

  Paid a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and paid for the rest using money from a loan
• Great Depression


  A period lasting from 1929 to 1941 in which the U.S. economy faltered and unemployment soared. Thousands of banks closed and businesses failed
• Black Tuesday, wiping out whole fortunes in hours

  October 21, 1929
• Dust Bowl


  Economic downturn coupled with prolonged drought, unusually high temperatures, poor agricultural practices and wind erosion
• Consumer society


  A society that is based on buying commercial goods, buying on credit, and not saving
• Frugal


  Doing whatever you can to save, not spend money, or making something last or as long as you can
• Potluck


  When each of the guests at a party brings a dish for everyone to share, becomes a popular way to share food and a cheap form of social entertainment
• "Thrift Gardens" and "Community Gardens"


  Residents of a community could grow fresh veggies and fruits together and share the harvest
• Great Depression Past time activities

  • Dance marathons
  • Venturing into haunted houses
  • Flagpole sitting
  • Building soap box cars and racing
  • Swallowing whole animal challenges
• Why were women criticized for taking jobs during G.D.?

  Women take clerical or service industry positions that weren't seen as socially acceptable at the time and they paid women workers less than male counterparts