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What were a few Postwar Problems? |
-Few opportunities for returning soldiers - Isolationism - Pursuit of Peace |
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Wave of leftist bombings? |
Red Scare |
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Theme of America's foreign policy during the 20's? |
Isolationism |
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A conference that caused Japan to become offended because was not recognized as equal to US? |
Wahington Naval Conference (1921) |
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Proposed an international agreement to make war illegal (attempt to achieve permanent peace in Europe)? |
Kellogg-Briand Pact |
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Effort to settle war debt and reparations cycle (Germans spent most of their loan money on reparations)? |
Dawes Plan |
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Won the 1920 election with the slogan "Return to Normalcy"? |
Warren Harding |
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What was the name of the first commercial radio station to broadcast the election results? |
KDKA |
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Who's administration was marred by scandal? |
Warren Harding |
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In what scandal was Albert Fall given control of the Navy's oil reserves? |
Tea Pot Dome Scandal |
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What was Calvin Coolidge's nickname? |
"Silent Cal" |
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Who said "the business of America is Business" and distanced himself from corruption? |
Calvin Coolidge |
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Who won the 1928 election against Al Smith ( Roman Catholic who opposed prohibition)? |
Herbert Hoover |
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During whose presidency did the stock market crash and cause the Great Depression? |
Herbert Hoover |
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Who came up withthe theory of relativity? |
Albert Einstein |
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What were two major philosophies of this era? |
Darwinism and Marxism |
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Who came up with the system of psychoanalysis? |
Sigmund Freud |
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What was the name for younger women who attempted to look liberated? |
Flappers |
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What was a similarity between all 3 presidents of this era? |
They were all Republican |
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Who was a famous sports player during this time? |
Babe Ruth- Baseball |
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Who was a famous person in film? |
Charlie Chaplin- Silent films |
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Who was the 1st man to fly a solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic? |
Charles Lindbergh |
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What two groups did America have problems with? |
Immigrants and Blacks |
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What was the Fundamentalist and Modernist's difference which they fought over? |
Doctrine |
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Effort to remove teaching of evolution in public schools? |
Scopes Trial |
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Who defended Scopes? |
Clarence Darrow |
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Who was the Prosecutor of the Scopes Trial? |
William Jennings Bryan |
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What were four ways Americans spent more and contributed to the Depression during this era? |
- Advertising - buying on credit or loans - buying on margins - Speculation |
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Bottom fell out of the Stock Market, investors lost $30 B? |
Black Tuesday |
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Agricultural Adjustment Act
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This act subsidies to the farmers
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Civilian Conservation Corps
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land improvement projects by young, married men
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Public Works Administration
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Construction of bridges, courhouses and schools
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Congress of Industrial Organizations
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labor union for unskilled workers
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Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
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protection of private money in banks
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National Recovery Administration
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"voluntary" guidelines for industry
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation
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$500 million in government loans to businesses, primarily banks
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Social Security Act
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old age pensions and unemployment insurance
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Tennessee Valley Authority
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projects to provide navigation, flood control, and cheap electricity
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Works Progress Administration
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$5 billion for almost all kinds of jobs, including the arts
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Herbert Hoover
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Who said, "a chicken in every pot and a car in every garage"?
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https://o.quizlet.com/i/g2HzOcWDEIqY6zgCDkpkAg_m.jpg
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Franklin Roosevelt
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His campaign song was "Happy Days Are Here Again"
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https://o.quizlet.com/rJVr81TjOjViGAzYw6vg8g_m.jpg
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Huey Long
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Louisiana senator and former governor: "Share Our Wealth" scheme
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https://o.quizlet.com/i/GqCGRmqHgrW4lVzEkaAt8g_m.jpg
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Francis Townsend
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The doctor who proposed a 2% national sales tax to pay a pension for the elderly
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https://o.quizlet.com/i/yX4HrkX9IGEdX85qxYUnMA_m.jpg
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Charles Coughlin
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Roman Catholic priest who proposed to replace capitalism with "social justice"
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https://o.quizlet.com/kZMWEL9O71rvAgPqFyndVQ_m.jpg
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Great Depression
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The economic crisis of the 1930's.
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https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1294/1054179764_855bd6aa44_m.jpg
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New Deal
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Roosevelt's efforts to conquer the Depression
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https://o.quizlet.com/QXrcvrvVCrkoVw9YaECSQw_m.jpg
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Banking crisis
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This crisis swept the nation at the very end of Hoover's administration and it threatened economic chaos
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https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7026/6629034769_84fbeac194_m.jpg
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Brain Trust
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Group of advisors who helped Roosevelt formulate a plan to overcome the depression.
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Dust Bowl
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Devastating drought through the Southern Great Plains in the 1930s.
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Higher wages
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This was the most significant contributor to the Great Depression
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Herbert Hoover
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Who did Americans blame for the Great Depression?
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Lower taxes
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Hoover's first response to the Depression
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Offer a dole to the unemployed
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Hoover refused to do this during the Great Depression
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Smoot-Hawley Tariff
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Hoover's most harmful action to the economy
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A balanced budget
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Hoover supported this while Roosevelt did not.
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Bonus Expeditionary Force
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World War I Veterans who demanded an early payment of their promised bonus
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Roosevelt refused to cooperate with Hoover's proposals
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Why did Hoover fail to take action in the final months of his administration?
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Declare a bank holiday
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Roosevelt's first action to end the banking crisis
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Recovery, Reform, Relief
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The 3 R's of the New Deal
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Balanced Budget
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The political right opposed Roosevelt because of his failure to have what?
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Being fair in taxation
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The politicla left opposed Roosevelt effort to what?
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Replaced retiring justices with his own supporters
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How did Roosevelt make the Supreme Court support the New Deal policies?
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Sit Down Strikes
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The CIO introduced this to gain concession for industrial workers
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Oklahoma
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This state was hit the hardest by the drought in the 1930's
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Charles Lindbergh
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His son was tragically kidnapped and murdered during the 1930s/
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The World of Tomorrow
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the theme of the New York World's fair
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Alf Landon
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Republican who lost to FDR by a landslide in the 1936 presidential election
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John L Lewis
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Unskilled workers in large industries were organized by this man.
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https://o.quizlet.com/qIVsKg4DG2ck1qwAZizuxA_m.jpg
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Fireside Chats
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Roosevelt's informal talks broadcast over radio to inspire public confidence
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Hoover believed that work relief was far better because it would at least discourage idleness and preserve the self respect of the needy. He wanted to keep the relief efforts under the control at the state and local levels which allowed measures taken to adapt to the needs in each area.
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Explain why President Hoover opposed the use of unearned governement handouts to meet the needs of impoverished Americans.
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It was based on the belief that there would always be more workers paying into the system than collecing benefits and that it could alwasy meet is oblicgations to those who retired from the taxes paid by workers. However, today, the worker to recipient ratio has closed dramatically and more is being collected from the system than is being paid into it.
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What is the foundational problem inherent in the Social Security System.
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