Final - Post WWI Flashcards
Red Scare
widespread fear of communism rising, cold war intensified in the 40s and 50s with russia.
Sacco and Vanzetti
two italian americans convicted of murder and robbery, both radicals. convicted and sentenced to death during the height of the red scare.
Eugenics
improve human population by having controlled breeding.
Buck V Bell
supreme court case with deciding to allow controlled sterilization on people in virginia.
Margaret Sanger
birth control activist, sex educator, opened the first birth control clinic.
Flappers
20’s fashionable woman
The Great Gatsby
1925 by F Scott Fitzgerald
Harlem Renaissance
1930’s, cultural, social, artistic explosion in harlem, cultural center for writers, philosophers, artists.
Ku Klux Klan
white supremacist group formed after the Civil war and reconstruction that murdered and terrorized african americans.
Scopes Trial
teacher in tennessee broke the law by teaching about human evolution
trial was staged.
Al Smith
4 time NY State governor, and democratic presidential candidate in 1928,
The Great Depression and the New Deal
Stock Market Crash
october 29 1929, billions lost, lasted 10 years,
The Great Depression
1929-39, began after stock market crash, consumer spending stops, workers laid off, 15 million unemployed americans.
John Maynard Keynes
british economist, changed theory and practice of macroeconomics for governments.
New Deal
group of U.S. government officials in the 1930’s with Franklin Delano Roosevelt, to help recover from the great depression.
