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US society before WWI
Smaller and larger agencies to coordinate and control production, distribution, transportation, communication and propaganda
War Industries Board: scarce materials, coordinated purchasing, fixed prices,etc., The Food Administration, The Fuel Administration, Railroad Administration, War Labor Board, U.S. Employment Service (heled workers find jobs), Women's Bureau
International Workers of the World (IWW) organized strikes: exhausted workers because of mass production and stop the war
WWI
1914-18
Assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria,Central vs Allied Powers
Central: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire
Allied: Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Canada, Japan, the United States;
The US didn't want to join:they wanted to sell weapons to both sides, BUT Germany provoked them: Zimmer Telegram to Mexico about attacking the US as allies
The US pushed back the Germans on the Western front, the Central Powers surrendered one by one
The League of Nations
1920, The 1st worldwide intergovernmental organisation whose principal mission was to maintain world peace, by Paris Peace Conference that ended WWI, US never became a member, 4 permanent members: British Empire, France, Italy, Japan
Women receive vote
1920
The Great Depression
1929
The stock market crashed Higher unemployment, poverty grew
New Deal: series of government programmes which would give relief, recovery, and reform, it improved the economy but didn't end the Great Depression (it ended by WWII)
Ku Klux Klan
Anti-color, anti-foreigner, anti-Catholic organisation
White supremacy
US in the 20s after WWI - "The Roaring Twenties"
Growth, increased wealth, consumer products (Ford Model T)
Isolatinist foreign policy (didn't want to enter another global war, laws and treaties to end war forever, refused to sell weapons to its former allies)
Spanish Flu, Railroad Administration, strikes (exhausted due to mass production)
1921: President Harding (big gap btw rich and poor), 1923: Calvin Coolidge President, 1928: Hoover President
1929: The Great Depression
New Deal, "red scare", Ku Klux Klan, birth control for women (middle class), "new Negro", Jazz Age, League of Nations (1st ww intergovernmental organisation to maintain world peace)
Red scare definition
A fear of radical movements especially communists
The "New Negro"
African American urbanisation
Migration from rural areas to cities (from South to North)
The black mostly lived in ghettos such as Harlem in New York
Jazz music, Jazz Age
Marcus Garvey nationalist: superiority of black culture
New Deal
1933-39, Franklin Roosevelt, a series of government programs which would give relief, recovery and reform
Building motorways, public work program, agriculture, only strong banks, agencies:Workers Progress Administration (WPA), Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC) provide temporary jobs, youth work
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