safmed period 7 part 2

Henry Ford

Henry Ford

He invented the assembly line which revolutionized factory production.

Art Deco

It captured that modernism turned into fashion while using machine age materials.

Phonograph

It made the new style of music available for everyone to hear.

Welfare Capitalism

It provided social programs to help worker's rights and also to increase worker production and economic development.

Modernism

This was a break with the past and the coexistence for new forms of expression.

fundamentalism

Fundamentalists blamed modernists for causing a decline in morals which increased tensions between the two groups.

Revivalists

Revivalists would utilize the new creation, the radio, in order to spread their message. Revivalists like Billy Sunday and Aimee Semple McPherson used the radio to share their messages. Billy Sunday addressed issues like drinking, gambling, and dancing, gaining support. Aimee criticized communism and jazz music.

Scopes trial

It represented the division between traditional and modern values

Clarence Darrow

He was one of the most famous and controversial defendants

Sacco and Vanzetti

It brought light on the the mistreatment of immigrants

Birth of a nation

It revived the KKK and started the use of film propaganda

Gertrude Stein

She named the new writers of the time the lost generation

Lost Generation

It helped emphasize the idea that America and greedy and lost in a materialistic world

George Gershwin

Incorporated jazz into classical form and was one of the most significant composers of the early 1900s

Sigmund Freud

His ideas led young men and women to revolt against sexual taboos and have new opinions about premarital sex.

Harlem Renaissance

It created a safe environment for African Americans to express their creativity. Black artists, actors, writers, and musicians created revolutionary art during the Harlem Renaissance.

Langston Hughes

His poems commented on African American heritage while expressing personal feelings and emotions.

Back to Africa Movement

Though the movement failed and was disliked, it inspired future black Americans to have pride in their heritage.

Marcus Garvey

Created the back-to-Africa movement. He was charged with fraud by selling stock in the Black Star Steamship line, putting him in jail. He was deported to Jamaica, causing his movement to fail.

Warren Harding

Approved the Fordney-McCumber Tariff Act and established the Bureau of the Budget. He was involved in many scandals including Teapot Dome.

Teapot Dome

The scandal caused many Americans to be distrustful of the federal government.

Calvin Coolidge

Won popularity in 1919 as the Massachusetts governor who broke the Boston police strike. He was a man of few words who richly deserved the nickname “Silent Cal.”

Herbert Hoover

Hoover had served three presidents (Wilson, Harding, and Coolidge) in administrative roles but had never before campaigned for elective office. In 1928, he was made the Republican nominee for president.

Alfred E Smith

Smith appealed to many immigrant voters in the cities.

Black Tuesday

Millions of panicky investors ordered their brokers to sell--but almost no buyers could be found. Prices on Wall Street steadily decreased.

Dow Jones Index

Three years later, stock prices would finally hit bottom at 41, less than one-ninth of their peak value.

Hawley Smoot Tariff

Set tax increases ranging from 31 percent to 49 percent on foreign imports.

Bonus March

General Douglas MacArthur used tanks and tear gas to destroy the shantytown and drive the veterans from Washington. The incident caused many Americans to regard Hoover as heartless and uncaring.

Eleanor Roosevelt

She helped to prove to the country that women were able to hold leadership roles and she also showed that husbands and wives could both be successful which was unheard of for this time.

New Deal

Using the 3 R’s (relief, recovery, and reform) FDR was able to help Americans who were affected by the economic collapse.

Brain Trust

These highly educated individuals helped the president to make informed decisions for the benefit of the country

Frances Perkins

This showed forward movement for women and their roles in the government

Fireside Chats

He helped to explain what was happening to common Americans in terms they would understand. It also helped to humanize the presidential role.

CCC

they employed young men and payed their families to help them be able to reinvest in the economy to help the rest of America

TVA

They hired people in the poorest parts of Tennessee to build dams to produce electricity at a cheaper rate than private power companies

Glass Steagall Act

Was one of the steps to the Financial Recovery and Reform Programs, presented by FDR

Emergency Banking Relief Act

Was one of the steps to the Financial Recovery and Reform Programs, presented by FDR

FDIC

Was one of the steps to the Financial Recovery and Reform Programs, presented by FDR

NRA

Gave workers the right to organize and bargain collectively

Schnecter v. US

Declared the NRA unconstitutional in 1935

SEC

Created to regulate the stock market and to place strict limits on the kind of speculative practices that had led to the Wall Street Crash

FHA

Provided many families their first chance to buy a home and build wealth that they could pass on to their children

WPA

Spent billions to employ citizens. After the first year 3.4 men and women were employed. It played twice the relief rate but still lower than the average laborer, mainly jobs consisting of construction to benefit the economy and artists and conesourers were payed to create murals, write histories, and perform.

Wagner Act

Replaced the national industrial recovery act, allowed the grenentee for workers' right to join a union and gave the union the right to bargain collectively. It also outlawed unfair business practices which was enforced by the national labor relations board.

Social Security Act

These payments got put toward the retirement of people over the age of 65 which is still used today. This also gave a penshin to those disabled and the ones who needed it

Charles E. Coughlin

Founded the national union of social injustice which called for the issuing of an inflated currency and the nationalization of banks. These attacks became anti-samitic and fascist until he was instructed to stop by the superiors of his church

Huey Long

Became a national figure through his share our wealth program which promised a minimum income of 5000 for every American family by taxing the rich. He challenged Roosevelt's lead of the democratic party until being assassinated.

Fair Labor Standards Act

A minimum wage of 40 cents an hour

A maximum work week of 40 hours with overtime pay of time and a half.

Child labor restrictions of people under 16

Dust Bowl

These dust bowls of blown away topsoil which compromised health and made many families poor, caused a migration to California of many farmers and their families in search of farm or factory work to provide for themselves which was scarce.

Mary McLeod Bethune

Long time activist in improving education and economic opportunities for women as well as establishing the federal council on Negro Affairs to increase african american involvement in the new deal.

Wheeler Howard Act

Allowed Native Americans to return to their former reserved land and encouraged the preservation of Native American culture and tribal organization.

Washington Conference

Resulted in the Five-Power Treaty (the five strongest naval nations in attendance were to limit naval construction), the Four-Power Treaty (the U.S., France, Great Britain. And Japan all agreed to respect each other's territory), and the Nine-Power Treaty (All nine nations in attendance agreed to respect the Open-Door policy.)

Kellogg Briand Pact

An agreement to not use war as a way to resolve conflicts. The pact didn't work in the end because it allowed defensive wars and failed to take action against those who broke the pact.

Good Neighbor Policy

Meant to mend relations between the United States and Central and South America. The new trade opportunities would help in the decline of the U.S. economy.

Facism

The dominant school of thought in European dictatorships in the 1930s

Rhineland

Hitler ordered German troops to march into Rhineland breaking the treaty. One in many series of aggressive acts foreshadowing another war.

Appeasement

This was a new strategy used against Adolf Hitler in which the Western Democracies would give into the demands of an aggressor in order to keep peace. Although this strategy did not stop Adolf Hitler and the Nazis.

Neutrality Acts

The Neutrality Acts were to limit the involvement of the U.S. in future wars. It was only the attack of Pearl Harbor that pushed America into the war.

Charles Lindbergh

Making the flight across the Atlantic Ocean with no stops, deemed Charles the first man to do something of this nature. This courageous feat helped make Missouri a leader in the developing world of aviation.

Four Freedoms

Simbolized America’s war aims and gave the American people a mantra to hold onto throughout the war. These four freedoms as international war goals went beyond just defeating the Axis powers.

Lend Lease Act

This act provided crucial aid for Great Britain and The Soviet Union during WWII while still being considered a “neutral country”

Pearl Harbor

The attack on pearl harbor led to the United States ending isolationism and uniting their country in order to enter WWII.This also led to the establishment of the U.S. as a world power.

War production Board

The WPB and the nation’s factories caused a major turnaround. Military aircraft production jumped from 6,000 in 1940, to 85,000 in 1943, ensuring that the military would have what they needed.

Manhattan project

The advancement of nuclear weapons not only helped bring an end to WWII but ushered in the atomic age and determined how the next war, the Cold War, would be fought.

Double V Campaign

The campaign changed the perspective of the white people for the African Americans by accepting them into society. This was also very impactful because African Americans began supporting war efforts.

Braceros

Offered five million contracts to Braceros on farms and railroads, making it possible for the U.S. economy to meet the challenges imposed by the war efforts.

Korematsu v US

Cleared Korematsu’s name along with 120,000 other incarcerated Japanese Americans, and it laid the legal cornerstone for the 1988 Civil Liberties Act.

Executive Order 9066

Giving the authorization to exclude “any or all persons” from different areas, it was designed to remove and eventually incarcerate Japanese aliens and American citizens of Japanese decent.

D Day

D-Day put the Allies on a path to victory in WWII. Storming the beaches of Normandy, they pushed Axis forces back until Germany was forced to surrender less than a year later.

Dwight Eisenhower

Planned and supervised two of the most consequential military campaigns throughout WWII, Operation Torch in North Africa, and the Invasion of Normandy in 1944, popularly known as D-Day.

Island Hopping

This method was used by the allies forces as they steadily moved towards japan after the victory. In order to maintain this strategy the United States began a long campaign to get within striking distance of Japan home island by seizing strategic locations in the Pacific.

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Douglas Macarthur

This conflict prepared the way for the United States reoccupation of the Philippines was the largest naval battle in history. The battle of Leyte Gulf in October 1944, the Japanese navy was virtually destroyed

J Robert Oppenheimer

He successfully tested the first atomic bomb on July 16, 1945. Which gave them an upper hand in order to make threats.

Harry S Truman

had a National reputation for having conducted a much publicized investigation of war spending. The democrats won 53 percent of the popular vote and an overwhelming 432-99 victory in the electoral college with him.

Conference of Tehran

The big three agreed that three British and Americans would begin the drive to liberate France in the spring of 1944 and the Soviet’s would invade Germany and eventually join the ar against japan.

Conference of Yalta

Was the most important conference of the war because it would largely determine rage future map of Europe also because they would agree on several policies to guide them after victory in Europe

United Nations

allied representatives proposed an organization callled the United Nations, then in April of 194 50 nations assembled to San Francisco, where they took only eight weeks to draft a charter for the united nation.