1920s
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
Federally protected land was sold to two oil-men for a 400k bribe.
Direct Election of Senators
17 Amendment
Ship blew up and was sensationalized
Maine
What are the three Rs of the New Deal?
Relief, Recovery, and Reform
Why did FDR institute the Good Neighbor Policy?
to ensure that Latin America would remain allied to the US
How did the Kellogg-Briand Pact (1928) further US isolation in the 1920s?
It renounced war
Mistreatment of people here led to the Spanish American War
Cuba
Teddy's approach to foreign policy
Walk softly carry a big stick
What was the purpose of the Tennessee Valley Authority?
To provide electricity and jobs to the most rural areas of the south
How did the US find work-arounds on the Neutrality Acts?
1. Cash and Carry Programs
2. Lend-Lease Act
Created Birth Control for Women
Margaret Sanger
Wilsons approach for progressivism
New Freedom
Tafts approach to foreign policy
Dollar Diplomacy
How did the New Deal provide relief for the elderly?
They passed the Social Security Act
How were minorities and women impacted by the War?
Many went to work in factories, African-Americans left the south, many served in the armed forces, etc
Why was the 1920s a period of false economic prosperity?
Answers vary:
1. Consumerism centered around buying on credit
2. Wages never really increased
3. Buying stocks on margin
4. Farmers suffered
Wilsons approach to foreign policy
Moral diplomacy
Queen Lil
How did Huey Long try to alter the New Deal plans?
He proposed a redistribution of wealth--$5k to each family
What was the purpose of the secretive Manhattan Project?
To develop nuclear weapons
Made a famous flight across the Atlantic
Lindbergh
His book was the rationale for US foreign policy at the turn of the Century. Author and Book
Alfred T. Mahan, Influence of Sea power on History
This addition to Cuba's constitution led to US still having some control, like access to Guantanamo Bay
Platt Amendment
How did FDR try to ensure that ALL New Deal Programs would pass and be kept constitutional?
He tried to pack the supreme court with justices that would favor the new deal--it failed
Policy of warfare in the Pacific that led to dropping the bomb to "save lives"
Island Hopping.