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As well as popular music and sports of the era. ,r. Markoe good morning everybody. Today we are going to discuss the jazz age, at least i am, and you are part of the discussion at the end. Please write down any thoughts you have, questions, responses, that would be good. Fromazz age is a period 1919 to 1929, reminds me of the opening lines of a tale of two cities by charles dickens. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times. It wasnt exactly the best of times, but for many people it certainly was good times. It was the great age of literature, the golden age of jazz. , music, the 19th amendment to the constitution, which allowed women to vote in National Elections for the first time, radio was becoming popular. It was the early days of , and certainly the age of the automobile, the multi the model t. Automobiles were for almost every budget. Whichare the good times we will discuss. And it wasnt exactly the worst of times, although there were some very bad times. Decade leds o
Certainly was good times. It was the great age of literature, the golden age of sports, music, jazz. The 19th amendment to the constitution, which allowed women to vote in National Elections for the first time. Radio was becoming popular. It was the early days of hollywood, and certainly the age of the automobile, the model t. And automobiles were for almost every budget. Those are the good times which we will discuss. And it wasnt exactly the worst of times, although there were some very bad times. And it the failures of that decade led to the worldwide depression in the 1930s and helped the rise of fascism in europe. So lets begin with talking about the politics of the era. It was a republican decade. Three republican president s, harding, coolidge and hoover, and the republicans controlled the presidency from 1921 until 1933, and congress from 1918 or from the 1918 election until 1930. Domestically it was an era of laissezfaire. An era of laissezfaire. In other words, give business
During that time he and the rest of his family hid with a number of families in and around paris. This is about an hour. Good morning and welcome to the United States hall cost memorial museum. My name is bill benson. Im the host of the museums Public Program first person. Thank you for joining us today. We are in our 20th year of the first person program. And our first person today is mr. Albert garih. His 2019 season of first person is made possible by the generosity of the Louis Franklin Smith Foundation with additional funding from the arlene and Daniel Fisher foundation. We are grateful for their sponsorship. First person is a series of twice weekly conversations with survivors of the holocaust who share with us their firsthand accounts of their experience during the holocaust. Each of our first person guests serves as a volunteer here at this museum. Our program will continue until august 8th. The museums website at www. Ushmm. Org provides information about each of our upcoming
Heck slow vannian. Czechoslovakian. Captioning performed by vitac captioning performed by vitac and we also had our ambassador in the 30s in germany, and then you said something about facts become knowledge, becomes and when did all that occur in a timeline, if you can . And i am sorry, i dont remember all three our four of those subjects that she talked about. Thats fine. But im sure she will be able to repeat them now. Well, i mean, i think what i was talking about is you can read something and not internalize it. So you may have the information, but it doesnt mean you understand it, and then it doesnt mean you necessarily at this time believe it. And then it is the biggest jump, i think, is from knowledge and understanding and belief and translating that into some sort of productive action to deal with what youve read. To some extent its because we have short Attention Spans and without knowledge of the future we dont know where to look. Are we looking at venezuela . Are we looking