The Radical, Roaring Twenties
This decade “zigzagged” between creativity (flappers, Harlem Renaissance) and anxiety (Red Scare, nativism, stock market crash).
What are the 1920s?
This international event helped spark fear of communism in the United States.
What is the Communist Revolution in Russia (1917)
This 1929 event marked the beginning of the Great Depression.
What is the stock market crash?
This campaign called for victory abroad against fascism and victory at home against racism.
What is the Double V campaign?
After WWI, most Americans supported this approach to foreign policy.
What is isolationism in world affairs?
This broader social attitude in the 1920s led to suspicion of immigrants and helped shape events like the Sacco and Vanzetti trial.
What is nativism?
This trial showed intolerance toward immigrants and fear of radicals in the 1920s.
What is the Sacco and Vanzetti trial?
This environmental disaster of the 1930s was caused by drought and poor farming practices.
What is the Dust Bowl?
This policy forced Japanese Americans into camps during WWII.
What is internment of Japanese Americans?
These laws were passed to keep the U.S. out of war in the 1930s.
What are the Neutrality Acts?
This term describes a young woman who challenged traditional feminine norms through independence and nightlife.
What is a flapper?
What is one key similarity between the First Red Scare and the Cold War Red Scare?
What is fear of communism led to the suppression of civil liberties?
This was the most important cause of the Great Depression involving risky investments.
What is excessive speculation in the stock market?
What was a major consequence of internment for Japanese Americans?
What is many lost homes and businesses?
This policy allowed countries to buy goods from the U.S. if they paid cash and transported them.
What is cash-and-carry?
This cultural movement was a period of great achievement by African-American writers, artists, and performers.
What is the Harlem Renaissance?
Why did many people believe Sacco and Vanzetti were treated unfairly?
What is they were immigrants with anarchist beliefs and were convicted on minimal or faulty evidence?
The Great Depression is best understood as being caused by this.
What is a variety of factors combined?
Examples include speculation, bank failures, and overproduction / underconsumption.
This wartime experience led African Americans to increase efforts to end racial discrimination.
What is serving in the military during WWII, including through holding jobs in military industries and serving in segregated combat units.
This 1941 attack demonstrated how a single event can shift public opinion toward war.
What is the attack on Pearl Harbor?
After World War I, many Americans felt this emotion regarding European affairs. It led them to support isolationism and neutrality in response to future conflicts.
What is disillusionment from World War I?
This period of the early Cold War reflected continued fear of communism and led to accusations that suppressed civil liberties.
What is McCarthyism?
How did President Franklin D. Roosevelt try to fix the economy during the Great Depression?
The internment of Japanese Americans violated their _____ ______ in the United States.
What are civil rights?
This secret U.S. program aimed to develop a powerful new weapon during WWII.
What is the Manhattan Project (which developed the atomic bomb)?