WWI Diplomacy
This first major challenge to US neutrality occurred when a British liner was sunk by German torpedoes, killing 128 Americans.
What is the Lusitania?
Led by Herbert Hoover, this agency encouraged Americans to eat less meat and bread so more could be sent overseas.
What is the Food Administration?
Following a series of bombings, this Attorney General led a massive campaign to arrest and deport thousands of suspected anarchists and socialists.
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
Famous for flying nonstop across the Atlantic Ocean, he received huge parades to welcome him home.
Who is Charles Lindbergh?
This popular silent film depicted its subjects as the heroes of Reconstruction, heavily contributing to the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.
What is "Birth of a Nation?"
In 1917, Germany decided to resume this naval policy because they thought cutting off Allied supplies would win the war before the US entered.
What is unrestricted submarine warfare?
To help finance the $33 billion cost of the war, Americans invested their savings into these government-issued certificates.
What are Liberty Bonds?
The Quota Acts of 1921 and 1924 were driven by nativist fears and specifically designed to severely restrict "new" immigrants coming from these two regions of Europe.
What are Southern and Eastern Europe?
By 1929, 26.5 million Americans owned one of these, which replaced the railroad as the key promoter of economic growth.
What are automobiles (or cars)?
In the 1925 Scopes Trial, Clarence Darrow defended a teacher's right to teach evolution against this famous fundamentalist and former presidential candidate.
This intercepted message from Germany offered to help Mexico regain the lost territory of Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona in exchange for their support.
What is the Zimmerman Telegram?
Between 1910 and 1930, one million African Americans moved North to escape segregation and find economic opportunities in a movement known by this name.
What is the Great Migration?
Fueled by massive post-war labor strikes and a series of unexplained bombings, the First Red Scare was driven by a widespread hysteria and fear of this radical political ideology taking over the United States
What is Communism? (Anarchism, Socialism)?
This specific fashion set young women apart in the 1920s, featuring dresses hemmed at the knee, "bobbed" haircuts, and smoking.
What is a "flapper?"
Passed in 1919 to conserve grain and ensure a sober workforce, this constitutional amendment ultimately led to widespread defiance of the law and a massive rise in organized crime.
What is the 18th Amendment?
Wilson’s plan to address the causes of WWI and prevent another war was known by this numerical name, and included demands like freedom of the seas and an end to secret treaties.
What are the Fourteen Points?
This Socialist leader and five-time presidential candidate received 920,000 votes while sitting in prison for violating the Espionage and Sedition Acts.
Who is Eugene Debs?
Described as the "Single Worst Incident of Racial Violence in America," white mobs destroyed Black Wall Street in this city in 1921.
What is Tulsa, Oklahoma?
National exposure to regional culture grew rapidly in the 1920s thanks to networks like NBC and CBS broadcasting coast-to-coast over this medium.
What is the radio?
Gertrude Stein coined this term for disillusioned 1920s writers like F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway who were unhappy with the materialism of consumerism.
What is the "Lost Generation?"
Fearing it would violate the Monroe Doctrine and US sovereignty, Senate "Reservationists" led by Henry Cabot Lodge opposed American entry into this international organization.
What is the League of Nations?
In Schenck v. United States (1919), the Supreme Court upheld the Espionage Act by ruling that free speech could be limited if it presented this specific type of threat.
What is a "clear and present danger"?
A massive national and international debate over civil liberties sparked when these two Italian immigrant anarchists were convicted of murder with minimal evidence and executed.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?
The Chrysler Building and the Empire State Building are famous skyscraper examples of this functional and aesthetic design style.
What is Art Deco?
After thousands of women entered the workforce and contributed to the World War I home front, President Wilson and Congress finally supported the passage of this 1920 constitutional amendment.
What is the 19th Amendment?