Impact of WW1 Flashcards
Who took the USA into WW1?
Woodrow Wilson
How did Americans feel about the war?
It had been a mistake
What di Harding ,1921, promise the Americans?
They’d return to normalcy
What was normalcy to the ‘WASPs’?
How America was before the war
What happened when Harding took over?
A short small depression caused by the war
Unemployment rose by how much at the end of the war?
950000 in 1919 to 5,010000 in 1921
What happened due to unemployment?
Strikes, protests, riots
What did Harding want the government to do?
Economic
Social
Balance gov books; reduce taxation, introduce tariffs to protect US trade and industry; provide radio
What did isolation mean doing?
Introduce tariffs which favoured US businesses, not joining LoN, not setting up colonies, cutting back on immigrants entering the country
What restricted immigration to 357000 a year?
1921 Emergency Quota Act
