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Who was the leader of bolsheviks

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Lenin

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What took place in Russia when this leader took over

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Civil war for two years
Reds- Lenin
Whites- former land owners, Government officials, Army leaders. The Reds finally won in 1920 and a new nation was born

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What became the official ideology of Soviet Union

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Communism

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What does communism mean

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Government owns all of the land and property and there are no individual rights

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What was the red scare of 1919

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An intense fear of communism and other extreme ideas gripped the US

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Why did Americans fear communists

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They were openly hostile to American values

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What supposedly was one cause of the labor strikes of 1919

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Communists better working conditions and pay

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What did the Republican presidents of the 1920s favor

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Businesses and wanted social stability to promote economic growth

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Isolationism

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A policy avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries

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Disarmament

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A program in which the nations of the world would voluntarily give up their weapons

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What did Harding and Coolidge base their foreign policy on

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Isolationism

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Laissez-faire buisnessss

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Do not let government interfere with the growth of businesses

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What was the Kellogg-Brian’s pact

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15 nations agreed not to use the threat of war in their dealings with one another

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Who won the presidential election of 1928

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Herbert hover

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What decade gave birth to modern America

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1920s known as roaring 20s

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16
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First shopping center

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Kansas City Missouri

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First fast food chain

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A and W root beer

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Advertising

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Became the number one business

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Consumer economy

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An economy that depends on a large amount of buying by consumers

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The demand for new appliances resulted in the rise of

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Electric power

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Why did Henry ford want to modernize and speed up the process of car building

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So he could produce more cars and selling them at prices ordinary people could afford

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What manufacturing invention did he use

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Assembly-line

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Assembly-line

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Hey manufacturing process in which each worker does one specialized task in the construction of a finished product. He didn’t invent it made it more efficient

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How did Henry ford use the economic concept vertical consolidation

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He owned several thousand acres of land in Brazil which consisted of rubber trees on plantations. Allow him to control costs.

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What other businesses began to thrive with the increase of automobiles
Garages car dealerships motels gas stations and restaurants
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What was the main reason why the value of nations businesses took off
Because of the Republicans laissez-faire policies
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Flapper
Young woman who were short skirts and dance on the stage
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How do you flapper change the image of woman
Fashion; Hemlines rose to knee length, hair was much shorter, wore make up, smoked and drank in public, and even began driving automobiles.
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What was the status of working woman during the 1920s
Worked in offices,sales,and service. Employers seldom trained women for higher positions or paid them on the same scale as men
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Demographics
Are stAtistics that described A population, Data on race or income. The major demographic change in the 1920s was that more people were leaving the rural areas and coming to the cities
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Why did African-Americans moved north in the early 1900s
Looking for jobs due to industrial boom. African-Americans still faced anger and hatred from the whites
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Barrios
Mexicans moved into large cities , settling in Spanish speaking neighborhoods
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Low paying jobs went to these two groups of immigrants
Mexico and Canada
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Durning the 1920s trolley cars to the suburbs replaced by what
Buses and automobiles
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How did Americans feel towards the heroes of the 1920s
Proud of the virtues of the good old days
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Who was the most exciting hero of this era
Baseball star babe Ruth. The babe set records and hitting, pitching, and out fielding that stood for decades.
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Because of more leisure time what a sports where Americans participating in
golf, tennis, and swimming
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What did radio and other mass media in the 1920s produce
A true national culture
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Mass media
Communicating information to large numbers of people
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What was the big change into movies in the late 1920s
Silent until- 1927 | First sound film(talkies) was introduced called the jazz singer
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What was the most read newspaper read in the 1920s
New York Times
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How did newspapers create a mass medium
People shared the same information, read about the same events, and were influenced by the same ideas and fashion
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What were the two leading magazines of the 1920s
Time and readers digest
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First radio station
KDKA, Pittsburgh, PA 1920 broadcasted the first presidential election returns
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First national radio network
The national broadcasting company
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Where did jazz music originate
New Orleans in the early 1900s
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Jazz music is a combination of
African-American field chants and European music
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Dances of the 1920s
Foxtrot Charlestown, Tango, Camel walk
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Who brought jazz music to the northern cities
Southern African Americans
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What did jazz music bring to the 1920s
An expression of the times in which we are living energetic and breathless
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Most famous writer of the 1920s
The muckraking novelist Sinclair Lewis
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During the 1920s what was the cultural center for the African-American
New York cities Harlem
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Harlem remassosance
It will birth of African-American culture through literary works such as writing

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