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__**Great Revision Cites**__ __**[|Schoolhistory]**__ __**[|BBC Revision]**__ __**[|Johndclare]**__ __**[|Historylearning]**__

**__General links__** Excellent general purpose revision/background notes: [] Did the 20's 'Roar' or Yawn'? You decide. Some useful general info on the 20's here: [] Detailed information on specific issues in the 20's: [] Detailed information on the 20's, especially good for cultural aspects (movies, fashion etc): [] Excellent overview notes from www.dhahranbritish.com: [] 1920's slang, of limited use but good fun - try and use some of these words during the school day! [] = __**The USA and WW1**__ = = **__The Economic Boom__** (textbook pages 11-16)=
 * Isolationist policies** - [[file:Isolationist policies.pptx]]
 * [[file:Why was there an economic boom in the 1920s]][[file:Main reason for the boom essay.docx]][[file:essay outline]] - first draft due 10 October, final draft due 13 October ||

General overview: [] Economic prosperity: [] Mass production: [] Good overview of the reasons for the 'boom' and the subsequent 'bust' in 1929. Scroll down to the PowerPoint entitled: 'Boom and Bust': []

Overview PowerPoint by carter333: __[|Roaring 20s Intro]__ View SlideShare __[|presentation]__ or __[|Upload]__ your own. (tags: __[|historia]__ __[|1920s(1)]__)

** Review **- [|Prioritize reasons for the economic boom in the USA in the 1920s]
= __Women in the 1920s__ =



Flappers, a source from 1925 describes the 'flapper': [|http://faculty.pittstate.edu/~knichols/flapperjane.html] = Who didn't benefit from the boom? =

How far did the USA achieve prosperity in the 1920s? - http://www.johndclare.net/America4.htm
- Poster Activity - Homework due Monday 25 October - write out the answer to the question on the last slide __**-**__ **__i__ntolerance in America in the 1920s**

= __**New forms of entertainment**__ =

[[file:entertainment hollywood and advertising project usa.docx]] [[file:marking criteria new forms of entertainment.doc]]
Excellent resource - [] BBC revise has an especially good section on consumerism: []

Class 1 projects - = **__Prohibition & Gangsterism__** (textbook pages 17-20)= Due Monday 8 November General overview of prohibition: []

General overview of gangsterism: []

Useful information including primary source material: []

Detailed information, especially recommended for its large collection of pro-prohibition propaganda: []

St Valentine's Day massacre: []

Good PowerPoint, with especially good part on Prohibition: []