HKCEE History Chapter 6会考历史6章.pptVIP

HISTORICAL CARTOONS Interwar Developments Part 1 Permanent Prosperity Finis Power Struggle The Victim The Goose-Step “The League? Pah! The League is contemptible! The League can do nothing! “ Red Carpet The Parting Guest Prepared by Hong Kong Association of History Educators /~hkahe March 2001 * * The USA had never before known the sustained prosperity that it experienced during the 1920s. A booming economy gave rise to the expectation that the good times would go on indefinitely. That expectation is conveyed in this cartoon by the American cartoonist, published in 1929 on the eve of the Gr