1920's Flashcards
Who were the main players in the Russian revolution
Reds vs Whites
What was the American involvement in Russia directly after the great war
Sent troops to gather their stuff that they gave to support the war efforts
What side and under who won the Russian revolution
Reds won under Lenin
What happened to the state of Russia after the Russian revolution
Turned into Communist USSR
What was the Red Scare of the 1920’s caused by
- strikes and communist revolutions in the west
- fear of foreigners by the public
- press using scare tactics to make it more popular
what were the 2 main trials of the Red Scare
Schenck vs. US , Sacco and Vanzetti trial
Who was the justice of the Schenck vs. US trial
Justice Oliver Wendall Holmes
What was the verdict of the trial between Schenck and US
Oliver Holmes said that free speech can be stripped in times of war; similar to alien and seditions act
What is an exception to the first amendment
clear and present danger to public safety; or during war time
Who is Att. Gen A Mitchell Palmer; slide of him
Sends out federal agencies to arrest several thousand suspected communist; White dude white hair with weird hats
What was the result of the Sacco and vanzeti trial
Executed without fair trial
Who was the judge for S and V trial
Judge Thayer
What happened to nativism during 1920s
it increased along with intolerance
What acts were set in place in response to the increase of nativism
immigration acts of 1921 and 1924
What was a prime example of labor unrest in boston
boston policy strike
What happened in the Boston policy strike
They illegally went on strike but Calvin Coolidge fired them and sent into the National Guard
Harding presidental idea
No goverment involvement and before progressive
Hardings republican formula
Lower gov spending higher tariffs and higher taxes
What was the political era of the 20s like
republican era with non progressives and pro big business
Hardings people
Poker Cabinet
Bad part about Harding
Very corrupt, with scandals
Democrats during the 20s
split between urban and farmers
Teapot dome affair
- secretary of interior Albert fall sold government oil leases and kept it
- first cabinet officer to go to prison
Hardings foriegn policy
isolationist
What was Harding big foreign policy deal
limited size of the top 4 navys in the world
Why did harding want to reduce the navy
reduced major spending
Why was Harding never mentioned
died of natural causes in 1923
Who came after harding died?
Coolidge
What is the diffrence between Coolidge and Harding
not much
Election map of 1924 weird things
Oklahoma is the only non confederate to vote democrate and Wisconsin went to LaFollette
1920 economy under Coolidge
Stocks grew and first public intrest
- Sec of Treas. under Coolidge
Andrew Mellon
Sec of Treas plans under Coolidge
Cut taxes on corporations and the wealthy; trickle down economics
Foreign policy of Coolidge
involved into Latin america and controlled most of it
Coolidge sent marines to where?
Nicaragua to stop the rebellion
Nicaragua rebellion led by
Augusto Sandino
Marine Slides
- Us marines in Nicaragua slides
- Sandinista flag is black flag with skulls on it in Nicaragua
Who came after Coolidge
Hoover
What amendment deals with Prohibiton
18th
Volstead Act
Dealt with the consequences of not obeying the 18th amendement
Who followed Volstead Act
Kansas; New york did not
What happened to the supply and demand of the Liquor after 18th amendement
Canada liquor spiked because of supply and demand
What led to more spending
installment plans so they do not pay up front
What innovations happened in the cites of 1920s
General electrics
Who suffered economically in the 1920s
Farmers
What caused depressed situation of farmers
caused by mechanization, rising production cost and overproduction
Henry Ford
Leader of the Cars
Who created the car
Germans; Mercedes Benz
Who mass produced cars
Henry Ford with Assembly line
What impact did Cars have on economy
Growth of related business
Flappers
Young Women who wore make up short skirts and short hair
It girl
Clara Bow model Flapper
What happened to women in workforce in 1920s
Went back home after war
What happened to women voting
They got it in 1920s but a large percentage did not vote because they did not want to. Votes like their male counterparts
Dance Craze
Charleston
What mass migration happened in the 1920s
People moving to urban from rural
Lucky Lindy
Charles Lindenburgh
Who is Charles Lindenburgh
- Fly across the Atlantic
- Spirit of St Louis
Who did Harding appoint to the Supreme court
Taft
What does Taft do as supreme court
Struck down many progressive ideas
What was Tafts goal in supreme court
Reverse a few decisions and become conservative
First women to fly Atlantic
Amelia Earheart
Heavyweight champion
Jack Dempsey
Lou Gehrig
Baseball
Babe ruth
- Baseballs homerun king
- Sultan of Swat
- 60 homeruns vs 12
Gertrude Ederle
First women to swim the English Channel and she smashed the record
Golf women
Babe Diefrickson Zaharis
Who has the purest golf swing
Bobby Jones
Noter dame coach
Knute Rockne
Red Grange
Created professional football
women’s tennis champ
Helen Wills
Big Bill Tilden
Tennis
First talking film
Jazz Singer with Al Jolson first feature talkie in 1927
Charlie Chaplin
One of the only successful movie stars
First radio station
KDKA in Pittsburgh
What was the rise of Radio stations like
in 2 years 500 came up
What came out of the rise of Radios
Homogenization in the English language
Louis armstrong
trumpet player in Duke Ellingtons band
Duke ellington
Father of Jazz
WC Handy
father of blues
Gershwin
Rapsody in blues; piano player
Edward Hopper
Great artist; Night Hawks picture
Georgia O’Keefe
Great artist; a lot of just regular life with bright colors; scandolus naked lady
F scott Fitzgerald
Great gadsby; lived in Montgomery with zelda
What is the lost generation
no purpose of life and this was in literature
Harlem Renaissance
Movement of African American artist who had pride of being black
Langston Hughes
Part of the Harlem Renaissance
Speakeasies
Illegal bars
St. Valentines day Massacre 1929
lined up gangsters when dressed as police and just gunned them down
Elliot Ness
Caught Capone on Tax evasion
21st amendment
Repealed 18th amendement banning alc
What party was on the side of repealing prohibiton
Democrate
Billy Sunday
Fought the devil; radio preacher
Aimee Semple McPherson
Radio Preaher
Scopes Trial
Debating over evolution with Clarence Darrow and WJB
What did Clarence Darrow do
Defended scope
KKK
rise in the north because jobs; Save our land join the klan; Navitist organization more than everything; Indiana more than anyone
Birth of a nation
based of a clansman
Marcus Garvey
encouraged blacks to emigrate to Africa to establish a country with a government
first cartoon
steamboat willie
