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54 Cards in this Set
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Normalcy |
What was the goal of the 1920s |
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T/F The Soldiers found that America had many opportunities for them after the war |
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Agriculture |
What market had a major upheaval after the war |
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Red Scare |
What included anarchy bombings to various government officials |
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Isolationism |
What was the general theme of American foreign policy during the 1920s |
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League of Nations |
The failure of what caused Americans to focus on their own country |
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World peace and stable world economy |
What were American’s two goals during the 1920s |
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Washington Naval Conference |
What was the first independent peace conference led by the United States |
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T/F The buildup of sea power stopped after the armistice |
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U.S., Britain, Japan, France, Italy |
What countries were in the Washington Naval Conference? |
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T/F The Washington Naval Conference Limited battleships but not destroyers cruisers or submarines |
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T/F Japan was satisfied with the results of the Washington Naval Conference |
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Kellogg-Briand Pact |
President Coolidge Secretary of State and the French Foreign Minister created what |
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Outlaw war |
What was the Kellogg-Briand pact’s purpose? |
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Lack of enforcement |
What made the Kellogg-Briand Pact Useless |
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Charles Evans Hughes |
Who urged withdrawal from Latin America |
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T/F The United States escaped relatively unscathed economically from the war |
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Fordney-McCumber Tariff |
Imposed a high tariff on European goods |
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Dawes plan |
Reduced German reparations and encouraged private businesses to lend money to Germany and reduced interest |
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Laissez-faire |
Free enterprise economy with minimal government interference |
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Warren G Harding |
Who was the first Republican president of the 1920s |
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Return To Normalcy |
What was Harding’s theme during his 1920 campaign |
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Teapot Dome Scandal |
Incident where harding’s Secretary of the interior Albert b fall took control of navy oil reserves |
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T/C Harding was considered to be a very weak president |
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Heart attack |
How did Harding die? |
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Calvin Coolidge |
Who was Harding’s Vice President who took office after his death |
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The business of America is business |
What was Coolidge saying |
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Herbert Hoover |
Who was the Secretary of Commerce who took office after Coolidge |
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Al Smith |
Who was the democrats who faced against Herbert Hoover |
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Herbert Hoover |
Who was the president who led to the Great Depression |
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Albert Einstein |
German scientist who is credited with the theory of relativity |
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Sigmund Freud |
Austrian psychologist |
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Prohibition |
What was a major victory for civic righteousness |
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21 |
What amendment repealed prohibition |
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Movies |
What was the biggest form of entertainment during the 1920s |
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Charles A. Lindbergh |
First person to fly across the Atlantic |
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Sacco-Vanzetti case |
Case where two people were convicted due to the fact that they were aliens |
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National Origins Act |
What set quotas to restrict immigration |
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Marcus Garvey |
Organized urban African Americans into a potent force |
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Harlem Renaissance |
During what event did black intellectuals gain prominence |
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Ku Klux Klan |
Fear of immigrants and Black people led to what |
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Al Capone |
Most infamous gangster of the 1920s |
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Fundamentalism |
Group that argued that doctrines exist that no one can deny and be a Christian. |
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Fundamentalist Modernist Controversy |
What was the battle over doctrine and the control of major denominations schools mission boards and institutions |
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John T. Scopes |
Who was the teacher who challenged the law by teaching evolution |
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Installment plans |
Small monthly payments until the item is paid for |
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KDKA |
What was the first commercial station |
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Speculation |
Buying something with the hope of later selling it for profit |
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Bull market |
A stock market characterized by optimism and rising prices |
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On the margin |
In this process investors purchased stock through a broker but only paid 10% of the price |
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On the margin |
In this process investors purchased stock through a broker but only paid 10% of the price |
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Black Tuesday |
October 29, 1929 |
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Bear market |
A stock market characterized by pessimism and declining stock prices |
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T/F Allied debt, reckless Federal reserve policies, the Smoot-Hawley tariff, and the easy money policy led to the Great Depression |
