treaty of versailles
American homefront
WWI
hodge podge
1920's culture
important vocabulary
things I should know
100
As part of the Treaty of Versailles, which nation was forced to sign the "War Guilt Clause" and pay reparations for the war
Germany
100
Which Supreme Court case during World War I limited free speech?
Schenk v US
100
Which event contributed to the United States entering World War I? hint: similar to the DeLome Letter
discovery of the zimmerman note/telegram
100
The Great Migration during World War I primarily involved:
African Americans moving from the south and sharecropping to northern cities for industrial jobs
100
Which technological innovation had the greatest impact on American mass culture in the 1920s
radio
100
the ability to control your own government--not be controlled by another country--opposite of colonialism
what is self determination
100
to know what you’re talking about; knowledgeable
"to know your onions"
200
What was President Wilson's main goal for the peace negotiations ending World War I
to establish a way to prevent future international conflicts--accept the LEAGUE OF NATIONS
200
purpose of posters like this one?
to encourage people to make sacrifices to support the war effort--such as rationing
200
what is the message in this political cartoon
The League of Nations would draw the United States into unnecessary conflicts
200
The Scopes Trial of 1925 centered around the teaching of
evolution
200
The Harlem Renaissance was primarily associated with
African American artistic and cultural expression
200
secret negotiations between Germany and Mexico about joining Central powers for territories lost in Mexican American War
What is the zimmerman note/telegram
200
was a fear of anarchism and a deep mistrust of immigrants
what is the red scare
300
Why did the U.S. Senate reject the Treaty of Versailles at the end of World War I?
to prevent the U.S. from getting involved in foreign conflicts
300
The Espionage Act of 1917 and the Sedition Act of 1918 represented which wartime changes to individual freedoms (2)
limiting the ability of citizens to protest the government
silencing citizens who were opposed to the war
limit printing criticism of government
300
What cause of United States involvement in World War I is referenced in this cartoon 
the discovery of the Zimmermann Telegram
300
The Red Scare of the 1920s was characterized by
Fear of communist influence in America
300
Prohibition in the 1920s caused what major negative result?
increase in Organized Crime
300
the area of land between two enemy trench systems, not controlled by either side that was laced with land mines and booby traps
no man's land
300
made the US Treasury Department responsible for enforcing prohibition—REGULATION OF MORAL BEHAVIOR.....
What is the Volstead Act
400
What was the overarching purpose of President Wilson’s Fourteen Points
maintain peace after the war was over--Accept PEACE WITHOUT VICTORY
400
what trend is evident in this poster
Women took on factory jobs traditionally held by men.
400
3 things that contributed to breaking the Stalemate
America joined the Allies
Tanks
Poisonous Gas
400
Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, and Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, TS Elliot, William Faulkner and EE Cummings (hint: disillusioned with america)
writers of the LOST GENERATION
400
Bessie Smith Zora Neale Hurst
Paul Robeson
Langston Hughes Countee Cullen
Josephine Baker
musicians of the Harlem renaissance?
400
where submarines sink merchant ships without warning to strengthen their blockade
unrestricted submarine warfare
400
Feds lost $11billion dollars in tax revenue
Bootleggers earned $3.6 million dollars in 1926
increase in organized crime and police were corrupt
Doctors made $40 million in medicinal whiskey prescriptions
$300 million dollars spent trying to enforce
200 distilleries, 1000 breweries, 170,000 liquor stores CLOSED
decline in economy
difficult to enforce
What are problems with Prohibition (4)
500
The Treaty of Versailles faced opposition in the United States Senate primarily because:
It included the establishment of the League of Nations
500
Who were the Harlem Hellfighters?
African American soldiers sent to fight in the American Expeditionary Force in France
500
What was the purpose of unrestricted submarine warfare?
Why was Germany willing to risk American joining the Allies?
To deprive Allies of supplies and make them surrender
Germany hoped to win the war before America could mobilize
500
Why were the Boston Policemen told they could not unionize/strike?
they were public servants in charge of maintaining order
500
characteristics of a FLAPPER (5)
red lipstick, short hair, dresses above the knee, smoking, drinking, cussing
500
Jeannette Rankin
only no vote to join WWI in Senate
500
Stressed science and secular ideas (Evolution)
It sparked intense debates about the separation of church and state, the role of education, and the place of religious beliefs in public discourse.
What is Modernism?
600
What did Wilson do that no other president had done?
Attended a world wide treaty negotiation
600
conducted in November 1919 and January 1920 by the United States Department of Justice under the administration of President Woodrow Wilson to capture and arrest suspected socialists, especially anarchists and communists, and deport them from the United States.
Palmer raids
600
how did alliances turn conflict into WWI
Germany backed AH, Russia backed Serbia, GB backed Belgium and France
600
What does M.A.I.N. stand for
militarism
alliances
imperialism
nationalism
600
how did dating (courtship) change?
less supervision
dates in cars not on front porches
more freedom
600
a man; someone who lives extravagantly (1920's)
Egg
600
EUROPE WAS POLITICALLY UNSTABLE
GERMANY WAS TREATED HARSHLY
No One RECOGNIZED SELF-DETERMINATION
reasons for WWII