Topic 4

Question 1

economic causes of U.S. entry into WWI

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significant loans American banks had extended to the Allied powers

Question 2

• post-war demobilization

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economic recession

Question 3

strikes

Question 4

• Efficiency Progressivism

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• Republican presidential administrations and the

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“Business of America”

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• expansion of a credit economy

Answer 7

lower interest rates, lowered lending requirements, and an increase in the amount of available credit

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• technological innovation

Answer 8

consumerism capitalism

Question 9

early suburbanization

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Widespread automobile ownership was promoting a vast wave of sub urbanization.

Question 10

• welfare capitalism

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• agricultural depression

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Wilsonian moral diplomacy and U.S. intervention in the

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Caribbean and Mexico

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• Wilsonianism and U.S. entry into WWI

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• the modernization of warfare and its psychological

Question 16

consequences

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• George Creel and the Committee on Public Information

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• Wilsonian liberalism

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the Treaty of Versailles

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League of Nations

Question 20

• interwar neutrality and the Kellogg-Briand Pact

Answer 20

The Kellogg-Briand Pact, signed in 1928 during the interwar period, was an international agreement where signatory nations pledged to renounce war as an instrument of national policy, essentially attempting to outlaw war and resolve disputes through peaceful means;

Question 21

• Sedition Act and Schenck v. U.S.

Answer 21

Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes upheld Schenck’s conviction and ruled that the Espionage Act did not conflict with the First Amendment.

Question 22

• Espionage Act and Eugene Debs

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• Red Scare

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• Herbert Hoover’s technocratic vision of government

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(associational state)

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Great Migration

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• African-American military service and the 92nd and 93rd

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divisions

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• lynching

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the Red Summer

Question 30

Tulsa’s Greenwood district

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• The Harlem Renaissance and the “New Negro”

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• 100% Americanism

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• National Origins Act of 1924

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• Second KKK and its women’s auxiliary

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Women’s Peace Party

Question 36

• Women’s mobilization during WWI

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• Katherine Magnolia Johnson and black women’s interwar

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activism

Question 39

* Alice Paul and the ERA

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First introduced in 1923, the ERA was rewritten in 1943 .

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* expansion of women’s professional and clerical

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In the 1910s, we see more women working in teaching and in clerical positions,

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employment

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• home economics movement and “Mrs. Consumer”

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• Fashion and Fun: the modernization of femininity

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* eugenics

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selective breeding

Question 45

* from Babbitt to Babe Ruth: white masculinity in the

Answer 45

"From Babbitt to Babe Ruth" refers to a phrase that encapsulates the archetype of white masculinity in the early 20th century America, contrasting the stereotypical, middle-class, conformist "Babbitt" figure with the larger-than-life, athletic, and often brash "Babe Ruth" persona, highlighting the shift towards a more assertive and publicly celebrated form of white masculinity during that period.

Question 46

1920s

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Primarily known for the economic boom that occurred in the Western World following the end of World War I (1914–1918)

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Lost Generation and modernism

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The lost generation was a group of American modernist writers and poets who all lived during World War I.

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• return to normalcy and middlebrow culture

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• consumerism and advertising

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• automobiles and radios

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* motion pictures and Hollywood

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Motion pictures have had a significant impact on society, influencing public opinion, cultural values, and social change.

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* youth culture

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the cultural practice of members of this age group by which they express their identities and demonstrate their sense of belonging to a particular group of young people.

Question 53

* Jazz

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a type of music of African American origin characterized by improvisation, syncopation, and usually a regular or forceful rhythm, emerging at the beginning of the 20th century. Brass and woodwind instruments and piano are particularly associated with jazz, although guitar and occasionally violin are also used; styles include Dixieland, swing, bebop, and free jazz.

Question 54

* prohibition

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legal prevention of the manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcoholic beverages in the United States from 1920 to 1933 under the terms of the Eighteenth Amendment.

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* Protestant fundamentalism and the Scopes Trial

Answer 55

The Scopes Trial, also known as the "Monkey Trial," was a highly publicized legal case in 1925 where a Tennessee teacher, John T. Scopes, was put on trial for teaching the theory of evolution, which directly clashed with the beliefs of Protestant fundamentalists who insisted on a literal interpretation of the Bible, particularly regarding the creation story in Genesis;