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
The Lost Generation
Sinclair Lewis- US conformity/materialism, F. Scott- Fitzgerald- the negative side of the era, Edna St. Vincent Millay- poems celebrating youth and independence,
Ernest Hemingway- critique of the glorification of war
Prohibition Experiment
WCTU and the Anti-Saloon League
- worked to get prohibition passed
18th Amendment: manufacture, sale, and transportation of alcohol prohibited
“The Noble Experiment”
Volestead Act
set up the Prohibition Bureau
reasons why it failed
1. underfunded
2. impossible to enforce
Loopholes in prohibition
- alcohol allowed for medicinal and religious purposes: prescriptions skyrocket
- people made their own alcohol -> accidents
- bootleggers
speakeasies
hidden underground saloons and nightclubs
St. Valentine’s Day Massacre
7 members of rival gang gunned down
impact: rise of FBI, rise of “rackets”, Al Capone takes over
