The idea behind Americans thinking it was their duty to "civilize" the "inferior races" of the world by introducing medicine, technology, Christianity, and democracy
Social Darwinism
100
American military independent of the Allied armies fighting in Europe
American Expeditionary Force
100
True or False: The US joined the League of Nations
False
100
Young unmarried women who embraced their independence and sexuality by cutting off their hair, shortening their hemlines, smoking, and drinking
Flappers
100
Which Amendment started Prohibition? What ended it?
18th, 21st
200
What were the 4 causes of WWI?
Militarism, Alliances, Imperialism, Nationalism
200
President Wilson's peace plan
Fourteen Points
200
How was America probusiness during the 1920s?
kept taxes law, kept government interference to a minimum
200
Authors who rejected war and were very critical of American society
Lost Generation
200
What negative effects did Prohibition have on America?
Increase in organized crime
300
Germany's declaration of this violated America's free trade
Unrestricted submarine warfare
300
These points created new rules that would eliminate the causes of WWI
1-5
300
Describe urban society during the Roaring 20s
Characterized by diversity, consumerism, freedom, and entertainment
300
Biggest sports hero of the 1920s
Babe Ruth
300
Fear of the spread of communism into America
Red Scare
400
In this (which was intercepted by the US), Germany offered to return the Mexican cession if Mexico invaded the US
Zimmerman Telegram
400
These points divided weak empires into new nations based on "self-determination"
6-13
400
Describe rural society during the 1920s
Characterized by religious fundamentalism, nativism, and tradition
400
Where 90% of the popular music in the 1920s (ragtime, jazz) was produced
Tin Pan Alley
400
When a Tennessee teacher was arrested for teaching evolution; showed the huge difference between urban and rural beliefs
Scopes Monkey Trial
500
When governments commit all of their nation's resources and take over industry to win war.
Total War
500
This point created the League of Nations to settle all future international problems and avoid future wars.
14
500
The flourishing of black culture during the Roaring 20s, characterized by Jazz, Louis Armstrong, Langston Hughes, and black pride.
Harlem Renaissance
500
What made cars more affordable? How?
Assembly line...mass production
500
Group that promoted "100% Americanism" and used fear and violence to attack basically anybody who wasn't a native born white protestant