WUSH II Unit 3 thing

Red Scare

A period of general fear of communists.

Rise of Nativism

- Fueled by immigrantion and eugnic ideas
- Ku Klux Klan

Eugenics

Social Darwinism applied to hereditary traits, restricted immigration.

Tulsa Race Riot

Deplorable and unjustifiable killing of Black americans

Prohibition

Alcohol banned

Tennessee vs. Scopes (1925)

- Fundamentalists vs. scientific ideas

Mass markets

Much supply and much demand

assembly line

- Worked for unskilled workers

Jazz age

- Because Jazz was a key feature of the 1920s

1920s popular culture

Radio/Movies/Magazines shaped a national identity that glamorized youth, consumerism, and the fads of the day.

The Lost generation of writers

Generation of writers who had their coming of age during the war, and shared the belief that they were lost in a greedy, materialistic world that lacked moral values and often choose to flee to Europe.

Women in the 1920s

flappers, women began to assert their independence and demand equal freedoms to men, more women joined the work force and no longer were only interested in traditional values etc.

Great Migration

Movement of African Americans from the South to the North for jobs.

Marcus Garvey

- Founder of the Universal Negro Improvement Association
- deported to Jamaica in 1927.

Harlem Renaissance

A period in the 1920s when African-American achievements in art and music and literature flourished

- Harlem was a city in New York, a result of the Great MIgration

Langston Hughes

Social activist and poet, key in the Harlem Renaissance

Overproduction

A condition in which production of goods exceeds the demand for them

Credit in the 1920s

allowed all Americans to buy products, even if they couldn't afford them

Bank failure in 1920's

Mass numbers of people tried to take out their savings but the bank couldn't provide all of their money at once leading to them failing

Buying on margin

paying a small percentage of a stock's price as a down payment and borrowing the rest

New Deal

FDR's plans to recover the US from the Great Depression

Franklin D. Roosevelt

President of the United States during most of the Depression and most of World War II.

Communism in USSR

Dictatorship, no freedom of speech, propaganda, fear and violence

Weimar Republic

Germany's government after the first world war

End of Empires after WWI

Russian Empire, Ottoman Empire, German and Austro Hungarian Empire

Economic depression

The world economy was reliant on the American economy.

Rise of facism in italy

- Economy instability
- Appealed to fearful workers As economic conditions worsened, Mussolini's popularity increased. He played on the fear of a workers revolt and won support from the middle class, aristocracy, and industrial leaders. The king decided to let him take over 'legally' because he felt that Mussolini would be best for the country's future.

Rise of the Nazi Party

- Inflation
- Hitler used Jews as a scapegoat / ethnic persecution