The 1920s
The need to buy lots of things.
What is Consumerism?
The organization proposed by Woodrow Wilson in his 14 Points to prevent future wars.
What was the League of Nations?
Declared the U.S can intervene in Latin America whenever its "needed."
What was the Roosevelt Corollary?
The Ku Klux Klan was an extremist group that used racism as an excuse to harass any group unlike themselves. The KKK was devoted to “100% Americanism.” The Klan believed in driving foreign-born people out of the country.
What was the Ku Klux Klan? (KKK)
The movement of over 6 million African Americans from rural communities in the South to cities in the North and West.
What was the Great Migration?
Under these laws, a person could be fined $10,000 and sentenced to 20 years in jail for interfering with the war effort or for saying anything against the government or the war effort.
What were the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
The Open Door Policy would give equal trading rights for all countries who wanted to trade with China.
What was the Open Door Policy?
Flappers were young, independent women prominent after WW1 and through the 1920s who wore short skirts, bobbed their hair, danced, smoked, drank, and listened to jazz.
What was a "flapper?"
A literary and artistic movement celebrating black culture in the 1920s.
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
A series of battles fought starting on August 8th, 1918 that eventually pushed the Germans out of France.
What was the Hundred Days Offensive?
Helps transport goods over the continental divide, and provides naval defense.
What is the Panama Canal?
African Americans were defined by the Harlem Renaissance, adopting new Black identity through art, Jazz, and literature. They were navigating the Great Migration, facing intensified racial segregation.
Who were African Americans?
Movement of typically older people; the conservative pushback against rapid urbanization and Modernism, focusing on upholding long-held religious values, endorsing Prohibition, and strict social roles.
What is Traditionalism?
The meeting of Allied Nations in January of 1919 to decide the fate of Germany and the Central Powers.
What was the Paris Peace Conference?
The forceful occupation of the Philippines after the Spanish-American war, under the belief that the Filipinos were not capable of self-governance.
What was the Philippine Campaign?
America and the Allied Nations adversary in WW1. Faced nationwide persecution in America after the war, facing worldwide stigma.
Who were the German people?
Movement of typically younger people; breaking from tradition, embracing social liberation, new ideas and technology.
What is Modernism?
The agreement signed between the Allied Powers and Germany on June 28th, 1919, officially ending World War I. Germany was ordered to reduce their military to a small part of what it had been prior to the war. Germany was also forced to pay huge amounts of reparations for war damages.
What was the Treaty of Versailles?
The Great White Fleet was a show of force. The group of 16 American battleships demonstrated that while the US was a nation of peace, it would use war to defend itself and its interests across the world. The 16 battleships that completed a journey around the globe.
What was the Great White Fleet?
People that made alcohol and smuggled it into cities or to bars during Prohibition. Some bootleggers sold moonshine. Bootleggers would often have modified cars to help them outrun the federal agents trying to catch them.
Who and what were Bootleggers?