World War I
Zimmermann Telegram
Nationally covered court case in which a biology teacher was tried for violating a ban on teaching evolution in public schools.
Scopes Trial
The crash of this financial institution, which had included overspeculation, in 1929 signaled the beginning of the Great Depression.
Stock Market
Many Americans agreed with his call for a "Return to Normalcy" but his poor judge of character in his political allies led to scandals such as Teapot Dome.
Warren G. Harding
FDR reformed America's financial institutions by introducing the SEC to regulate the stock market, and this agency to insure bank deposits.
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC)
President Woodrow Wilson's postwar peace plan that included freedom of the seas, new independent countries, and a League of Nations.
Fourteen Points
Political scandal over bribery and oil leases that resulted in a cabinet member's conviction and ruined President Warren Harding's reputation.
Teapot Dome
These happened whenever citizens panicked and rushed to withdraw their deposits, but many ended up losing their savings anyway.
Bank Failures
Calvin Coolidge
In order to get people working and earning paychecks, FDR introduced job programs like the WPA and this agency focused on forestry projects.
Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC)
Unrestricted use of these weapons by Germany convinced many Americans to join the war.
Submarines
Women who challenged traditional ideas and expectations about female behavior by embracing self-indulgent lifestyles.
Flappers
This was a major consequence of the economic downturn, caused specifically by layoffs due to businesses scaling down production; would reach 25% by 1932.
Unemployment
He strongly believed in "rugged individualism" and was resented by many Americans for his failure to effectively confront the onset of the Great Depression.
Herbert Hoover
Social Security
Medal of Honor winner from Tennessee who killed and captured many German soldiers by himself.
Corporal Alvin York
Widely popular African American music style that defined the decade.
Jazz
Tariffs
His New Deal brought economic recovery and redefined the federal government's responsibility concerning the economy and citizens' welfare.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
This move by FDR was seen by many Americans as an unconstitutional attempt to upset the separation of powers and checks and balances in American government.
Court-packing
Commander of the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) that turned the tide of the war in Europe.
General John J. Pershing
Automobile manufacturer who made cars more affordable by introducing assembly line techniques to produce them more cheaply and efficiently.
Henry Ford
Government policy passed in response to complaints about competition for jobs with immigrants.
Mexican Repatriation