Trizna - Unit 5 (1920 - 1945)

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GREAT MIGRATION

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Refers to the movement of African Americans after World War I from the rural South to Northern cities to find jobs in industry; increased economic opportunity

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IMMIGRATION ACT OF 1924

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Placed a quota on immigration, largely excluded southern and eastern Europeans;

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1920s MASS CONSUMPTION

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1. Growing popularity of radio and motion pictures
2. Prosperity resulted in part from increased demand for consumer goods
   
3. Growing demand for the automobile
4. Use of credit

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CONFLICTING VALUES OF 1920s

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Conflicting social values during the 1920s:

• Liberal: flappers, speakeasies, consumer spending
• Conservative: prohibition, Scopes trial, anti-immigration/nativist attitudes

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18th AMENDMENT (1920)

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National Prohibition; public opinion was divided; difficult to enforce because it did not ban consumption of alcohol

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19th AMENDMENT (1920)

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Constitutional Amendment granting suffrage to women

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HARLEM RENAISSANCE

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Cultural movement in the 1920s that expanded the influence of African Americans by promoting the artistic contributions of African Americans (i.e. Langston Hughes, Duke Ellington)

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SCOPES TRIAL

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Trial of a biology teacher who brazenly taught evolution; reflected the conflict in American society between science and religion

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SACCO & VANZETTI

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Trial of two foreigners executed for an alleged robbery/murder; represented anti-foreign attitudes and a fear of communism; linked to the Palmer Raids

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FIRST RED SCARE

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Anti-Immigrant / Anti-Communist attitudes; linked to the Palmer Raids

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CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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1. Installment Buying (paying in installments)
   
2. Income inequality
3. Buying goods on credit
4. Stock Market Crash (1929)
5. Overproduction

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IMPACTS OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION

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1. Altered American political preferences
   
2. Led to increased role of the federal government in Americans' lives (i.e. New Deal)

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DUST BOWL

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Poor farming methods and sustained drought in the 1920s and 1930s led to the Dust Bowl, which negatively impacted farmers on the Great Plains

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PRESIDENT HOOVER'S "BONUS ARMY"

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After WWI, 43,000 WWI veterans who demanded cash payment during the Great Depression for their service marched on Washington ; President Hoover ordered the U.S. army to clear the veterans' camp sites.

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FDR'S NEW DEAL PROGRAMS

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Creation of the Social Security Act, CCC, SEC Wagner Act

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IMPACTS OF THE NEW DEAL

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Led to increased role of the federal government in Americans' lives

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PRE-WWII FOREIGN POLICY

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FDR urged the U.S. to become an "arsenal of democracy" to provide war materials to allied nations; Neutrality Acts of 1935, 1936, 1937 > Neutrality Act of 1939 > Lend-Lease Act of 1941 (became increasingly less neutral over time)

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CAUSES OF WORLD WAR II

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Bombing of Pearl Harbor (December 7th, 1941)

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IMPACTS OF WWII

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Women were encouraged to conserve household products to support war effort and Americans were encouraged to conserve scarce resources (i.e. rationing gasoline)

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JAPANESE INTERNMENT DURING WWII

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Internment illustratd that civil liberties are sometimes limited during times of national crisis; Korematsu v. U.S. (1944) authorized exclusion of Japanese Americans as "a matter of national security"

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TRUMAN & THE ATOMIC BOMB

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Manhattan Project was part of WWII effort to develop the atomic bomb. Dropped on Hiroshima on Aug 6, 1945 and Nagasaki on Aug 9, 1945