Study Guide Flashcards
Who was the leader of bolsheviks
Lenin
What took place in Russia when this leader took over
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
What became the official ideology of Soviet Union
Communism
What does communism mean
Government owns all of the land and property and there are no individual rights
What was the red scare of 1919
An intense fear of communism and other extreme ideas gripped the US
Why did Americans fear communists
They were openly hostile to American values
What supposedly was one cause of the labor strikes of 1919
Communists better working conditions and pay
What did the Republican presidents of the 1920s favor
Businesses and wanted social stability to promote economic growth
Isolationism
A policy avoiding political or economic alliances with foreign countries
Disarmament
A program in which the nations of the world would voluntarily give up their weapons
What did Harding and Coolidge base their foreign policy on
Isolationism
Laissez-faire buisnessss
Do not let government interfere with the growth of businesses
What was the Kellogg-Brian’s pact
15 nations agreed not to use the threat of war in their dealings with one another
Who won the presidential election of 1928
Herbert hover
What decade gave birth to modern America
1920s known as roaring 20s
First shopping center
Kansas City Missouri
First fast food chain
A and W root beer
Advertising
Became the number one business
Consumer economy
An economy that depends on a large amount of buying by consumers
The demand for new appliances resulted in the rise of
Electric power
Why did Henry ford want to modernize and speed up the process of car building
So he could produce more cars and selling them at prices ordinary people could afford
What manufacturing invention did he use
Assembly-line
Assembly-line
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
How did Henry ford use the economic concept vertical consolidation
He owned several thousand acres of land in Brazil which consisted of rubber trees on plantations. Allow him to control costs.
What other businesses began to thrive with the increase of automobiles
Garages car dealerships motels gas stations and restaurants
What was the main reason why the value of nations businesses took off
Because of the Republicans laissez-faire policies
Flapper
Young woman who were short skirts and dance on the stage
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.
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
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
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
Barrios
Mexicans moved into large cities , settling in Spanish speaking neighborhoods
Low paying jobs went to these two groups of immigrants
Mexico and Canada
Durning the 1920s trolley cars to the suburbs replaced by what
Buses and automobiles
How did Americans feel towards the heroes of the 1920s
Proud of the virtues of the good old days
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.
Because of more leisure time what a sports where Americans participating in
golf, tennis, and swimming
What did radio and other mass media in the 1920s produce
A true national culture
Mass media
Communicating information to large numbers of people
What was the big change into movies in the late 1920s
Silent until- 1927
First sound film(talkies) was introduced called the jazz singer
What was the most read newspaper read in the 1920s
New York Times
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
What were the two leading magazines of the 1920s
Time and readers digest
First radio station
KDKA, Pittsburgh, PA 1920 broadcasted the first presidential election returns
First national radio network
The national broadcasting company
Where did jazz music originate
New Orleans in the early 1900s
Jazz music is a combination of
African-American field chants and European music
Dances of the 1920s
Foxtrot
Charlestown,
Tango,
Camel walk
Who brought jazz music to the northern cities
Southern African Americans
What did jazz music bring to the 1920s
An expression of the times in which we are living energetic and breathless
Most famous writer of the 1920s
The muckraking novelist Sinclair Lewis
During the 1920s what was the cultural center for the African-American
New York cities Harlem
Harlem remassosance
It will birth of African-American culture through literary works such as writing
