World War 1

Question 1

Who introduced the 14 Points and what were they?

Answer 1

President Woodrow Wilson

proposal for peace agreements. self-determination

Question 2

What did the US do with the Treaty of Paris?

Answer 2

not ratified by the American Senate

US suspends all reparation payments of Germany to the United States

Question 3

What were the consequences of World War 1 for the US?

Answer 3

naval power, especially submarines
boost to the economy > Roaring 20s
principal creditor nation in the world

Question 4

What happened in the Roaring 20s?

Answer 4

big social changes
immense wealth
rising middle class investing into the stock market
popular culture
leisure time: sports, entertainment, music

Question 5

How did the image of women change?

Answer 5

Beginning of women's emancipation
New Woman (Flapper) = short hair, tight short clothes, skinny

Question 6

What did the Sufragette Movement did in the 1920s?

Answer 6

fighting for women’s rights to vote

> 19th Amendment to the Consitution: women’s right to vote

Question 7

What was the Harlem Renaissance?

Answer 7

movement of black artists, musicians, writers, actors

Question 8

Name 3 important people in the Harlem Renaissance

Answer 8

Duke Ellington
Louis Armstrong
Langston Hughes

Question 9

What music were important in the Roaring 20s?

Answer 9

Jazz

Question 10

What was Prohibition?

Answer 10

consmung and producing alcohol + prostitution forbidden
perceived immorality of women and alcoholism of working class men

Question 11

What consequences did the prohibition had?

Answer 11

smuggling between dry and wet states
bootleggers = smuggling alcohol in boots
moonshining = producing and consuming alcohol illegaly at night

Question 12

What led to the Great Depression in the 1930s?

Answer 12

Roaring 20s:

people start to buy things on credit and buying stocks

Question 13

When was the stock market crash?

Answer 13

1929

Question 14

Which groups suffered the most from the Great Depression?

Answer 14

recent immigrants
Southerners
African Americans
Native Americans
women

Question 15

What are Hoovervilles and why are they called that?

Answer 15

after President Herbert Hoover

shanty towns of the poor on the outskirts of big cities

Question 16

Who was President Roosevelt?

Answer 16

Democratic President
elected during Great Depression
media presidency
very popular, 3x reelected

Question 17

What did President Roosevelt achieve?

Answer 17

New Deal reforms

“The Alphabet Soup”

Question 18

What reforms did the New Deal introduce?

Answer 18

Agriculture Adjustment
Federal Emergency Act
Fair Labor Standards Act
Social Security Act

Question 19

What did the “Agriculture Adjustment” of the New Deal reforms introduce?

Answer 19

crop insurance

benefits to farmers who planted soil-enriching + food crops instead of soil-depleting and staple crops

Question 20

What hinder the Agriculture Adjustment of the New Deal Reforms?

Answer 20

Dust Bowl
depleated soil + no rain for weeks > dust storms
Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, Dakotas

Question 21

What did the “Federal Emergency Act” of the New Deal reforms introduce?

Answer 21

funds for public works to create jobs for unemployed

zB highway building, reforestation

Question 22

What is the Tennessee Valley Auhority of the New Deals?

Answer 22

dams and power plants along the Tennessee River

> flood control, improved shipping, electricity for rural areas

Question 23

What consequences did the stock market crash had?

Answer 23

banks fail
businesses go bankrupt
high unemployment
poverty

Question 24

What did the “Fair Labor Standards Act” of the New Deal reforms introduce?

Answer 24

improved working conditions  in factories and mills
social benefits for workers
no child labor under 14
minimum wages
maximum working hours

Question 25

What did the “Social Security Act” of the New Deal reforms introduce?

Answer 25

unemployment insurance

federal pension system

Question 26

Who wrote in the 1920s?

Answer 26

expatriats disillusioned with involvement in WW1

“lost generation” meets in Paris

Question 27

Name 2 writer and their books during the 1920s

Answer 27

F. Scott Fitzgerald: “The Great Gatsby”

Theodore Dreiser: “An American Tragedy”

Question 28

What was the literature in the 1930s like?

Answer 28

great depression
proletarian literature
protest novels

Question 29

Name 2 writers and their books during the 1930s

Answer 29

protest novel for poor farmers and sharecroppers:
John Steinbeck: “Grapes of Wrath”

protest novel for workers in the city:
John Dos Passos: “U.S.A.”

Question 30

What consequence did the Dust Bowl in the 1930s had?

Answer 30

farmers lost their land and migrated to California

> abused as migrant farm workers