• 19th amendment
ratified in 1919 giving women the right to vote
FASHION
Women’s skirts become
narrower and hemlines rise above the ankle
Cross cropped hair worn
under hats
Arabian look, soft
loose materials
Liberation from the
corset
Freedom to wear
trousers, short hair
Hair under turbans
The hemline of their fashionable skirt became higher
and rose above the ankles. This was partly because women began
to work in the garden and using cars more often. They needed a
higher skirt so the material didn't get in the way of the
accelerator or brakes.
SPORTS
One of the sports
heroes of 1910's was baseball player Ty Cobb of Royston, Georgia. One of the first 5
players named to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Best hitter and overall player of
his time.
Another sport hero of
the 1910's was American Indian, Jim Thorpe. Way before Deion and Bo, Thorpe was one of the
greatest Olympic athletes of
all time and won several gold medals. He played football, baseball, and participated in several Olympic track
and field events.
Americans
neutral providing food and supplies only until 1917
Why
fought?
Serbia declares war on Austria/Hungary and assassinates the Duke and Duchess. Germany
joins with them. High
tensions between the nations of nationalism, imperialism, and militarism.
Allies: France,
Britain, Russia, US, Italy
Central Powers: Germany,
Austria/Hungary, Turkey/Ottoman Empire
Results:
US
Deaths – combat 53,513 Other
63,195 Cost: $18.7 billion
Germany
would pay restitution for losses suffered by Allies, accept responsibility
for the war, lose land, be limited in their military size, lose overseas colonies
US emerges as one of
the most important world powers
Sets stage for WWII
Wartime
laws that forbid people from speaking out against the gov’t.
Socialist
and pacifists arrested for their actions
Woodrow
Wilson’s plan for peace – Fourteen Points
-End of secret agreements, freedom of the
seas, free trade, limit
on arms, principle of self-determination, form the League of Nations for world peacekeeping.
-(rejected by Senate because would lead to
more distrust by American
people of the gov’t., showed we shouldn’t have been involved in the war to start with,
committed the US to help
in future wars.
Panama Canal opens
in 1914. Biggest problems – malaria, yellow fever, digging through
mountains, system of locks and pumps, landslides
The Lusitania an
ocean liner on its 202 voyage across the Atlantic is sunk by a German
u-boat (submarine). One of the major causes that leads the US to
get involved in the war.
At
The Movies - The Little Tramp
In 1916, his
third year in films, his salary of $10,000 a week made him the highest-paid
actor — possibly the highest paid person — in the world.
Sir
Charles Spencer Chaplin, Jr, was the most famous actor in early to mid Hollywood cinema era, and also a notable director. His principal character was "The
Tramp": a vagrant with the refined manners and dignity
of a gentleman who
wears a tight coat, oversized pants and shoes, a derby or bowler hat, a
bamboo cane, and his signature toothbrush moustache. Chaplin was one of the most creative personalities in the silent film era; he acted in, directed, scripted, produced, and eventually scored his own
films.
TIMELINE
1910
Boy
Scouts of America and Campfire Girls are founded
1911
Triangle
Shirtwaist fire leads to reforms in building codes and labor laws
First
electric self-starter for automobiles
First air conditioner invented
1912
U.S. Public
Health Service is established
Arizona becomes
the 48th state
Woodrow Wilson
elected as U.S. president
Sinking of the Titanic
First use of
zippers in clothing
1913
In Georgia – Leo Frank
Trial
- case of anti-semitism
in the murder of Mary Phagan
1914
Outbreak of World War I
Panama Canal opens
1915
Fist
use of poison gas in warfare
Death
of educator Booker T. Washington
1916
Albert
Einstein proposes Theory of Relativity
Woodrow
Wilson reelected as U.S. president
1917
The
United States enters World War I
1918
President
Woodrow Wilson proposes Fourteen Points, a plan for world peace
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