Post -War America
The employment rate climbed to what in 1921?
What is 11.9 %
What were 2 basic foreign policy tasks the U.S. faced in the 1920s?
What is to maintain world peace and to stabilize the world economy.
When was was the first radio broadcast and what was announced?
What is November 2, 1920 station KDKA in Pittsburgh made its first broadcast announcing the election results for Warren G. Harding.
What amendment prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transport of alcohol?
What is the 18th amendment
What was Warren G. Harding's approach to government?
What is pro-business, hands-off approach to government.
What problems did Americans face at home after WW1?
What is The nations industries and manpower were no longer demanded by the war effort./Few opportunities for soldiers./ Peacetime industries didn't resume production quickly.
What was the Washington Naval Conference and what was the result from the conference?
What is a conference the U.S. called because they were concerned by the escalating arms race and the result was a plan for Japan, Britain, and the U.S. to scrap some of their vessels, limit battleship construction, and establish a cap for naval tonnage.
What became the biggest mass media before T.V.?
What is Prohibition?
What is the period during which alcohol was illegal in the country, from 1920 to 1933, is known as Prohibition.
What was the Teapot Dome Scandal?
What is Fall had won Harding's approval to take control of the US Navy's oil reserves at two locations, Teapot Dome in Wyoming and Elk Hills in California. Fall accepted bribes to lease the oil rights on those properties to two oil businessmen, who were later found to have also given Fall sizable "loans."
Why did low food prices devastate farmers in the 1920s?
What is they were in debt from buying land and farm equipment.
What was the Kellogg-Briand Pact and where was it signed?
What is a proposed international agreement that would outlaw war signed in Paris.
Who were the "Lost Generation"?
What is writers who chose to live and write in Europe rather than live in the U.S.
What was the Volstead Act?
What is It defined illegal beverages as those that contained more than 0.5% alcohol by volume and established the Bureau of Prohibition to enforce the law.
What was Calvin Coolidge's Nickname?
What is "Silent Cal"
What remained a domestic issue throughout the 1920s?
What was the Dawes Plan?
What is a plan that reduced German reparations payments and encouraged private American institutions to continue lending money to help Germany rebuild. The Government also reduced the interest charged on Allied war debt.
Who were flappers?
What is young women who captured attention by their shocking behavior, such as wearing shorter skirts, short haircuts, and heavy makeup, as well as drinking, using slang, and smoking.
Who was Al Capone?
What is the most infamous gangster of the era- Al Capone, also known as Scarface.
What was bootlegging?
What is making and selling illegal liquor
What is Isolationism?
What is the desire to stay out of foreign entanglements and wars.
What was German's only means of obtaining cash?
What is through Loans
What was the Harlem Renaissance?
What is African American culture flourished as black intellectuals and writers including James Weldon Johnson, Alain Locke, and Langston Hughes achieved prominence.
What is 21st amendment
What was the Scopes Trial?
The resulting Scopes trial, also called the Monkey Trial, became a media event as national attention focused on Dayton for the summer of 1925.