1920s Flashcards
What is demobilization
The standing down of a nations armed forces from a combat-ready status
What did WW1 lay the ground work for
Economic expansion
What did tariffs do
Created an economic boom in the us
What can from the economic boom
Cars, refrigerators, microwave, radios
What was a reason consumerism was pushed
Higher wages and credit purchasing
With prices being low…
Standard of living rose
Food was..
Plentiful and cheap
People owned house…
Through mortgages
Who was president
Warren G. Harding
1920s president=
Urged a return to normalcy
Who took over after Hardings death
Calvin Coolidge
Businesses can run with no government interference
Laissez-faire
Why did the Russians drop out of the war
A revolution
Who took control of Russia
Vladimir Lenin
What was Lenin’s group
The Bolsheviks
Who took over after Lenin
Joseph Stalin
What was the red scare
The fear that communism would spread to America
What did the media do with the news of communism
They sensationalized the story
What was a big event that had to do with the red scare
The Palmer raids
What were the Palmer raids
Bombs went off in several cities
What did Mitchell Palmer do
Tried to ideantify and root out the groups that posed a clear and present danger
What are the people called who want to overthrow the government
Subversives
Who was targeted?
Communist socialist anarchist
What happened on January 2, 1920
Federal agents in 33 cities arrested thousands of radicals WITH NO EVIDENCE. they were charged with anarchy