Foreign Policy
Why is WWI called "The Great War"?
WWII had not yet happened, or
Involved nations all over the world
President when the stock market crashed in 1929
Herbert Hoover
What do the Volstead Act, the 18th Amendment, and the 21st Amendment all have in common?
Prohibition
Name a 1920s American artist
Georgia O'Keeffe; Frank Lloyd Wright
WHat genre of music became a symbol of the “new” and “modern” culture of the cities
Jazz
Committed to outlawing future wars
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Secretary of the Treasury when the stock market crashed in 1929
Andrew Mellon
Other than African-Americans, name three groups of Americans targeted by the Ku Klux Klan
Catholics, Jews, foreigners, the mentally disabled, homosexuals, and suspected Communists
Name a "Lost Generation" author
Gertrude Stein, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Sinclair Lewis, Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Eugene O’Neill
Argued that white Southerners were continually stripping black Southerners of their rights
W.E.B. DuBois
Foreign policy asserting a nations' best interests are best served by keeping the affairs of other countries at a distance
Isolationism
Advantage of mass production
Made new products available and affordable
Italian immigrants who had been convicted of committing robbery and murder
Sacco & Vanzetti
Which movie introduced talking (sound) pictures
The Jazz Singer
Promoted the “Back to Africa” movement
Marcus Garvey
Lent Germany money to rebuild its economy and pay reparations to Allies
Dawes Plan
What appeared as Americans grew more prosperous and felt confident going into debt?
Credit
How did flappers clash with 1920s values?
Wore dresses hemmed at the knee, “bobbing” their hair, smoking cigarettes, drinking, dancing, and driving cars
In the 1920s, role models switched from politicians to...
Athletes and actors
Writers from what era wrote about appreciation of self and the experience of being treated “second class”?
Harlem Renaissance
Initiated talks on naval disarmament and scaled back defense expenditures
Washington Conference
Americans that did not share in the prosperity of the 1920s
Farmers
The Scopes Trial focused the debate between...
Fundamentalists and modernists
What benefit to American culture did the introduction of radio provide?
Unified the country enabling people to listen to the same programs
Why did the Great Migration occur?
Escape the segregated life of the South and more economic opportunities