Unit 3: WWI And 1920s

Question 1

how did America’s intervention in the war change the country domestically and internationally

Answer 1

war created business for the country domestically

Question 2

US neutrality

Answer 2

proclamation of strict impartiality toward both sides at war

Question 3

how did the federal government attempt to control and influence Americans

Answer 3

the committee on public information

Question 4

Casualties in the Great War

Answer 4

4 million dead British, French, Russians, and Italians on the Allied side

Question 5

American Losses

Answer 5

115,000 dead

Question 6

committee on public information

Answer 6

was put in charge of selling the war to the American people
using the latest techniques from public relations, advertising, and psychology to “fight for the minds of men” with official propaganda

Question 7

Anti-German campaign

Answer 7

the committee on public information became an Anti-German campaign

Question 8

espionage and sedition acts

Answer 8

damaging to freedom of expression

Americans were arrested merely for daring to speak out publicly against the war

Question 9

League of Nations

Answer 9

an international alliance against war itself became known as the League of Nations

Question 10

Treaty of Versailles

Answer 10

also forced Germany to accept full responsibility for the war and to pay billions in future “reparations” to the Allies

Question 11

reparations

Answer 11

compensation for war damage paid by the defeated

Question 12

influenza epidemic

Answer 12

Half a million Americans lost their lives

Question 13

Russian Revolution

Answer 13

a hundred US soldiers died in Russia fighting the Bolsheviks after Wilson ordered military intervention against the Russian Revolution

Question 14

the Palmer Raids

Answer 14

Palmer organized mass arrests of 6 thousand suspected radicals across the country

Question 15

How and why did the abrupt end to WWI lead to recession and race riots across the United States?

Answer 15

billions of government orders were abruptly cancelled throwing many people out of work
competition between blacks and whites for scarce housing during the war turned into competition for scarce jobs afterwards

Question 16

Who were the “New Woman” and the “New Negro” of the 1920s

Answer 16

New women: the American woman of the decade (especially the younger generation) were breaking free from repressive expectations society imposed on their gender
New Negro: new attitude of racial pride, assertiveness and defiance

Question 17

Harlem Renaissance

Answer 17

writers, artists, and musicians, created the Harlem renaissance. a joyous celebration of black life in the North

Question 18

The Great Migration

Answer 18

when half a million African Americans left the rural South for the urban North

Question 19

what changed about the new women

Answer 19

the fashion, less restrictive clothing, short skirts and bobbed hair, demanded more access to education and careers

Question 20

Warren Harding

Answer 20

Republican nominee won the 1920 election and was not in favor of the League of Nations

Question 21

“Normalcy”

Answer 21

Harding’s promise was “not nostrums but normalcy”

Question 22

isolationism

Answer 22

policy of remaining apart from the affairs or interests of other groups

Question 23

Calvin Coolidge

Answer 23

who replaced Harding famously said, “The chief business of the American people is business”

Question 24

“Red scare”

Answer 24

the rounding up and deportation if immigrants of radical political views. the scare caused by fears of communists in the US after Russian revolution

Question 25

republican conservatives

Answer 25

Republican conservatives like President Harding set the pro-business tone for politics and governance in the 1920s

Question 26

teapot dome scandal

Answer 26

several high-ranking members of Harding’s administration went to prison for taking bribes from oil companies

Question 27

Town vs. Country (tradition vs. modern)

Advocates for prohibition

Answer 27

cultural interests, access to technology, openness to change, and differences in prosperity often divided Americans along rural (traditional) vs. urban lines (modern)

Question 28

Scopes trial and evolution

Answer 28

country folks believed in the education of the bible others believed in the teachings of evolution

Question 29

prohibition

Answer 29

Prohibition of alcohol would be the most lasting and controversial home front legacy of World War I
against alcohol

Question 30

18th amendment

Answer 30

prohibited the manufacture, sale, and transportation of “intoxicating liquors,”

Question 31

Farm prices crash

Answer 31

Farm prices crashed precipitously after World War I, leaving many farmers high and dry
Agricultural surpluses plagued the farm sector, Farm prices stayed low

Question 32

necessity of credit

Answer 32

Credit in the form of “buy now, pay later”

Question 33

new advertising

Answer 33

Advertising was equally necessary to persuade consumers to buy what they knew they could not afford

Question 34

What did the phrase “new era prosperity” mean

Answer 34

New Era prosperity relied on credit and advertising to stoke the engines of mass consumption

Question 35

what lead to the Great Crash?

Answer 35

the nations severe inequality of income; just a handful of rich people were able to afford things such as Model T cars so an under-consumption began to happen

Question 36

speculation

Answer 36

speculative stocks are favored by speculators and investors because of the high-reward, high-risk characteristics

Question 37

“Black Tuesday”

Answer 37

share prices on the New York stock exchange collapsed becoming a pivotal factor of the Great Depression