The Roaring 20s
This census year showed that for this first time ever, more Americans were living in cities rather than in rural areas. (bonus 100 points if you can tell me why this is important)
1920 Census
Gentlemanly Warfare
This amendment enabled the United States to occupy a foreign country from abroad without having any troops or colonial government in said country. This enabled the manipulation of foreign countries' economies and governments.
The Platt Amendment
The Klu Klux Klan
This type of 'consume now, worry later' thinking was one of the contributing factors that eventually led to the stock market crash in 1929.
Credit
During the 1919 Seattle General Strike, workers discovered this new type of weapon they could wield that would cripple unfair employers who were unwilling to negotiate with unions using only the power of their dollar.
This wartime president was famous for making a strong push for the League of Nations to prevent another war like the Great War from breaking out. He suffered a stroke and could not get congress to pass US membership.
National (or corporate) Interests
By the mid-1920s, life had become too different and 'modern' in the cities, prompting what reaction from non-urban traditionalist spaces?
The Rural Counterattack
President Herbert Hoover believed in this idea, stipulating that banks should be allowed to make their own decisions because they would do what was right for the greatest amount of people.
Volunteerism
Henry Ford realized that if he were to implement this new strategy, workers would be encouraged to spend their money on his products, thus bringing more profit to him.
$5/$6 Day
What all Black unit grew to famous renown by French forces for their ferocity and valor in combat along the Western Front after the US joined the war?
The Harlem Hellfighters
This future president became famous for taking San Juan Hill during a particular was that started in 1898 to 'free' the Cuban people.
Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt
This landmark Supreme Court decision ruled that the dozens of forced sterilization laws passed by many US states was totally legal and constitutional.
Buck v. Bell (1927)
President FDR's New Deal administration that paid people to do what they already did was one of the biggest, most successful, and wide reaching New Deal programs. It was designed to get money back into the hands of Americans in order to stimulate the economy back to life. (Bonus 100 points if you can tell me why this was needed)
Works Progress Administration (WPA)
As a result of industrial capitalism and vast productive output, Americans became part of what that trapped them in a cycle of purchase in order to survive in the system?
Consumer Culture (or consumerism)
This famous American author dissented American involvement in World War I because it would only generate more suffering for poor American workers who are called up to serve, critiquing the idea of 'patriotism'.
In order to open up stubborn markets that don't want you to exploit their resources, you'd need this type of boat.
Gunboat Diplomacy
By the time the Nazis come to power in Germany, they base their Nuremberg race laws in 1935 off of American what?
Eugenics
Despite much conservative backlash against FDR's New Deal policies, these were begging the government to do more to help the people by the end of FDR's 1st 100 days.
Through advertising in the 1920s, corporate interests managed to convince workers that this phenomenon's rise tacitly made them a part of the capital owning class in order to better hide their exploitation.
The Rise (or myth) of the Middle Class
This key aspect of Wilson's 14 point peace plan stipulated that all peoples should have the chance to govern themselves... Leaving out a very large and key type of population.
Self-Determination of Nations
In what would eventually be called "the US' first Vietnam", the US war with the Philippines saw many war crimes and atrocities committed such as in the "battle" in this crater.
The Moro Crater Massacre (or 'Battle' of Bud Dajo)
The US state department is quoted as saying these will help preserve an ideal US racial hegemony and racial makeup.
Immigration acts of 1921 and 1924
As a result of the New Deal and FDR's direct action, this form of governing was created with the intent to last into the future, one that would take care of and protect its citizens from another Great Depression.
The Semi-Welfare State