1920s and Great Depression:

Charles A Lindberg

________ became the first man to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean in 1927.

Interstate Commerce Commission

The ________ was led by men who were sympathetic to the managers of the railroads.

Herbert Hoover

________ won the election of 1928 in a landslide, becoming the first Republican candidate in 52 years (except for Harding's Tennessee victory), to win a state that had seceded.

Dr Sigmund Freud

________ argued that sexual repression was responsible for a variety of emotional problems.

Ku Klux Klan

The ________ (Knights of the Invisible Empire) grew in the early 1920s out of the growing intolerance and prejudice of the American public.

Secretary Hughes

________ secured the rights for American oil companies to share oil lands in the Middle East with Britain.

Mississippi Valley

In the 1930s, a drought scorched the ________, causing thousands of farms to be sold.

Veterans Bureau

In 1921, Congress created the ________ to operate hospitals and provide vocational rehabilitation for the disabled.

Prohibition

________ caused bank savings to increase and absenteeism in industry to decrease.

Guglielmo Marconi

________ invented wireless telegraphy (the telegraph) in the 1890s.

Hoover

________ developed a plan in which the government would help the railroads, banks, and rural credit corporations in the hope that if financial health was restored at the top of the economic pyramid, then unemployment would be relieved as the prosperity trickled down.

Margaret Sanger

________ led a birth- control movement.

Andrew W Mellon

________, Pittsburgh's multimillionaire aluminium king, was the secretary of the Treasury.

American Legion

The ________ was created in 1919 by Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, Jr.

Capper Volstead Act

The ________ exempted farmers 'marketing cooperatives from anti- trust prosecution.

Marcus Garvey

________ founded the United Negro Improvement Association (UNIA) to promote the resettlement of blacks in Africa.

Earnest Hemingway

________ was among the writers most affected by the war.

F Scott Fitzgerald

________ wrote This Side of Paradise in 1920 and The Great Gatsby in 1925.

Professor John Dewey

________ set forth the principles of "learning by doing "that formed the foundation of so- called progressive education.

Britain

A Four- Power Treaty between ________, Japan, France and the United States replaced the 20- year old Anglo- Japanese Treaty and preserved the status quo in the Pacific.

Alice Paul

________ formed the National Women's Party in 1923 to campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution.

Sports

________ became a big business in the consumer economy of the 1920s.

Isolationism

________ was prominent in Washington.

Modernism

________: philosophical movement during the 1920s; a key component of this movement was the questioning of social conventions.

Warren G Harding

________ was inaugurated in 1921.

Mellon

________ helped create a series of tax reductions from 1921- 1926 to help rich people.

Hoovervilles

________: a nickname for tin- and- paper shantytowns.

Gasoline engines

________ led to the invention of the airplane.

Flappers

________: young women who expressed their disdain for traditional women behavior by wearing short skirts, drinking, driving cars, and smoking.

Charles Evans Hughes

________ was the secretary of state.

Calvin Coolidge

________ won the election of 1924.

quota system

The ________ significantly reduced immigration.

Mencken

________ attacked marriage, patriotism, democracy, and prohibition in his monthly American Mercury.

1923

In ________, Colonel Charles R. Forbes, head of the Veterans Bureau, was caught stealing $ 200 million from the government, chiefly in connection with the building of veterans 'hospitals.

Reconstruction Finance Corporation

In 1932, Congress created the ________ (RFC), which lent money to insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, and state and local governments.

Antiredism

________ and antiforeignism were reflected in the criminal case of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti.

Orville

On December 17, 1903, ________ and Wilbur Wright made their first flight, lasting 12 seconds and 120 feet.

Chicago

In ________,"Scarface "Al Capone, a murderous booze distributor, began 6 years of gang warfare that generated millions of dollars.

Great Depression

The ________ worsened the economic state in Europe, which had not yet fully recovered from WWI.

Republican Congress

In 1921, the ________ created the Bureau of the Budget to help the president submit an annual budget to Congress.

Japanese imperialists

In September 1931, ________, seeing that the West was bogged down in the Great Depression, invaded the Chinese province of Manchuria.

Bruce Barton

________ founded advertising.

Senator La Follette

________ from Wisconsin led the new liberal Progressive party.

Motion picture

________ was used extensively in WWI as anti- German propaganda.

Harlem Renaissance

________: a black cultural movement that grew out of Harlem.

Congress

________ passed the Norris- La Guardia Anti- Injunction Act in 1932, which outlawed antiunion contracts and barred federal courts from stopping strikes, boycotts, and peaceful picketing.

Charles Dawes

Negotiated by ________, the Dawes Plan of 1924 addressed the debt repayment issue.

Henry Ford

________, father of the moving assembly line (Fordism), created the Model T. By 1930, more than 20 million Model Ts were being driven in the country.

Esch Cummins Transportation Act of 1920

The ________ returned the railroads to private management.

Immigration Act of 1924

The ________ replaced the Quota Act of 1921, cutting quotas for foreigners from 3 % to 2 %.

The true birth of motion picture came in 1903 with the release of the first story sequence

 The Great Train Robbery

Flappers

young women who expressed their disdain for traditional women behavior by wearing short skirts, drinking, driving cars, and smoking

Gangsters began to move into other profitable and illicit activities

 prostitution, gambling, narcotics, and kidnapping for ransom

Modernism

philosophical movement during the 1920s; a key component of this movement was the questioning of social conventions

Harlem Renaissance

a black cultural movement that grew out of Harlem

Harding's brightest and most capable officials (above) were offset by two of the worst

 Senator Albert B

The Five-Power Naval Treaty of 1922 limited the construction of certain types of large naval ships, and it applied ratio limits to the number of ships a country could build (ex

Japan could build 3/5 as many ships as America)

It tried to outlaw war, but it had a big exception

defensive wars were still permitted

Presidents Harding and Coolidge were much more prone to increasing tariffs than decreasing them; this presented a problem

Europe needed to sell goods to the U.S. to get the money to pay back its war debts

Hoovervilles

a nickname for tin-and-paper shantytowns

(ex

the Hoover Dam)

Ex

He vetoed the Muscle Shoals Bill, which was designed to dam the Tennessee River and sell government-produced electricity in competition with citizens in private companies