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1920s: Innovations in Communication and Technology

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Economic Prosperity Time of significant economic growth and security, such as most of the 1920s in the United States, which became known as the Roaring 20s.
Roaring 20s Nickname for the 1920s in the United States because of the lengthy period of economic prosperity between the end of WWI and the start of the Great Depression.
Standard of Living Degree of wealth available to a person or community, which determines how much material comfort a person or community can afford.
Scientific Management System of organizing workers in the most efficient ways possible by standardizing tools, equipment and methods, which was developed by Frederick W. Taylor.
Henry Ford Automobile industrialist who perfected the moving assembly line for manufacturing cars and helped revolutionize American culture by introducing the affordable Model T.
Assembly Line System of manufacturing that drastically improves efficiency through breaking the manufacturing process down into simple and easily repeatable tasks for workers.
Consumer Appliances Machines utilized by the average household that became popular during the 1920s because of advancements in electricity, manufacturing and advertising.
Impact of the Automobile Cultural change caused by a new transportation machine that families could own and use to live in suburbs and commute to work and gave a new sense of independence to young drivers.
Open Shop Business policy of allowing jobs to be available to nonunion workers.
Welfare Capitalism Business practice of voluntarily offering improved benefits and higher wages in order to reduce worker interest in unionization.
Industrial Design Fusion of art and technology into a new profession, which focused on creating functional products that had aesthetic appeal.
Art Deco Architectural style popular during the 1920s that captured modernist simplification of forms while using machine age materials, such as the Chrysler Building.
Mass Media Widely circulated and consumed forms of media such as newspapers, magazines and the more recent forms of media of the 1920s, such as the radio and movies.
Radio Form of mass media that became popular during the 1920s through nationally broadcasted music, news broadcasts, sporting events, soap operas, quiz shows and comedies.
Networks Mass media companies that originated in radio such as NBC (1924) and CBS(1927) that eventually made the transition to television as well.
Movie Industry Form of mass media centered in Hollywood that became popular during the 1920s with the rise of “talkies,” film stars such as Greta Garbo and elaborate movie theaters.
Hollywood Center of the movie industry, which became prominent during the 1920s with the rise of “talkies,” film stars such as Greta Garbo and elaborate movie theaters.
Popular Music Styles of music that became part of mainstream American culture through mass media, such as jazz during the 1920s.
Phonographs Early record players that became popular during the 1920s that along with the radio, helped spread new styles of music.
Popular Heroes Larger-than-life personalities celebrated on the sports page and movie screens that Americans started to idolize and adopt as role models with the rise of mass media.
Aviation Flying or operating of aircraft, which became more popular in the 1920s as airplane technology improved and created new American heroes such as pilot Charles Lindbergh.
Charles Lindbergh Celebrated American aviator who became famous for completing a solo nonstop trans-Atlantic flight, but was also a staunch isolationist and member of the America First Committee.
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