Society - AO3 Flashcards
(7 cards)
1
Q
When was Fitzgerald writing?
A
The Jazz Age and the Interwar Period.
2
Q
Politically speaking, what were the 20s?
A
A time for growth and prosperity.
3
Q
What was the Jazz Age?
A
A glamorous decade noted for its cultural, artistic and social
developments.
4
Q
What did the Jazz Age dissolve into?
A
The Wall Street Crash of 1929, and so, The Great Depression of the 1930s.
5
Q
What was ‘The Lost Generation’?
A
People who felt hopeless and like life was pointless after the first World War.
6
Q
When did women get the right to vote?
A
The 1920s, giving them independence.
7
Q
How did women reinvent themselves in the 1920s?
A
Cut their hair into bobs, and wore shorter skirts.
