Unit 5 Flashcards
League of Nations
Failed: inaction and fear of countries in response to Hitler, no US
Postwar Struggles
- debate over LON
- The Progressive Era
- Unemployment and Struggling Farms/Factories
- Racial Tensions
- Influenza Pandemic
American Response Post WW1
Isolationism: pulling away from involvement in international affairs
Nativism: prejudice/fear against foreign born
The Red Scare
Attorney General Mitchell Palmer led “Palmer Raids”
- blamed foreigners for spread of communism and anarchy
- arrested and deported
KKK rises again
used anti-immigrant sentiments as an excuse to harass groups different than themselves
Sacco and Vanzetti
Italian immigrants and anarchists, unfair trial for murder, sentenced to death
Young women WW1
- involvement in war
- assertion of independence
- reject traditional values
- demand same freedoms
- 19th amendment
Flapper
an emancipated young women who embraced the new fashions and urban attitudes of the 20s
Double Standard
- greater sexual freedom to men
- women torn between new standards and old expectations
Impact of Automobile
urban sprawl: workers can live miles from jobs , hotels/motels, mechanic shops, gas stations, garages
henry ford
created model T, Anti-semitism
Consumerism in 20s
purchasing consumer goods,
etc. radios, cars, vacuums, clothing
Installment Plans
paying a little bit of the cost until the whole is paid
Bad: it would put people in debt
Heroes and Celebrities
Babe Ruth: baseball
Charles A. Lindbergh: pilot on transatlantic flight
Entertainment and Art
The Jazz Singer: first movie w sound
American Jazz: George Gershwin
Georgia O’Keefe: colored canvases of NY
