The Interwar Years: 1920-1930

Unit 6

Warren G. Harding

29th president (1921-1923) A senator from Ohio, picked Governor Calvin Coolidge of Massachusetts as his running mate.

Calvin Coolidge

30th president (1923-1929) a Republican lawyer from Massachusetts, served as the 29th vice president.

Teapot Dome Scandal

Involved by Albert Bacon Fall, the U.S. Secretary of the Interior under President Warren G. Harding and accepted large sums of money and valuable gifts from private oil companies to control government oil reserves.

Kellogg-Briand Pact

In 1928, the US and 14 other countries signed this, an agreement that outlawed war.

Model T

Ford achieved his goal by building a study and reliable car called this, nicknamed as Tin Lizzie.

Henry Ford

American industrialist who revolutionized factory production with his assembly-line methods. Designed and invented the Model T.

Moving Assembly Line

Used conveyer belts to move parts and partly assembled cars from one group of workers to another.

Herbert Hoover

31st president (1929-1933) A wealthy mining engineer before his presidency, He led the wartime Commission for Relief in Belgium. Director of the U.S. Food Administration, followed by post-war relief of Europe.

Flappers

Young women known as this, cut their hair short and word make up and short dresses, openly challenging traditional ideas of how women were supposed to behave.

(The first) Red Scare

A period of intense anti-communist, anti-immigrant, and anti-radical hysteria in the US following the Russian Bolshevik Revolution. (A time of fear of communists, or reds.)

21st Amendment

In 1933, state and federal governments responded with this, which ended prohibition.

Fundamentalism

Protestant religious movement known as this-characterized by the relief in a literal, or word-for-word, interpretation of the Bible.

Scopes Trial

In May 1925 a Dayton, Tennessee, high school science teacher named John T. Scopes was put on trial for teaching evolution-this.

Great Migration

During WWI, large numbers of African Americans began leaving the south to take jobs in northern factories.

Jazz Age

An explosion in the popularity of jazz music gave the decade, another nickname- this.

Harlem Renaissance

A period of African American artistic accomplishment.

Lost Generation

Writers who critizied American Society in the 1920s thus became known as this.

Buying on Margin

“If the stock market is doing well, you get wealthy.”

Installment Buying

1920s version of credit card, “Buy now, pay later”

Palmer Raids

Police arrest and deport thousands of immigrants who were suspected of being radicats.

Sacco and Vanzetti

Immigrants who were put to death at the height of the Red Scare.

Dawes Plan

The US will loan Germany money to pay back Europe for WWI.

Black Tuesday

The most devastating stock market crash in U.S. history, marking the end of the "Roaring Twenties" and the start of the Great Depression. PPL wanted to sell their stocks, value ↓

Business Cycle

Consumer buy surplus goods, and companies increase, production to meet the demand, more workers are hired and unemployment drops. This pattern called this.

Great Depression

The longest, deepest, and most widespread worldwide economic downturn of the 20th century, lasting from 1929 to 1939. It caused massive industrial decline, unemployment, banking collapses, and reducing global trade.

Bonus Army

WWI veterans who marched on Washington CD to urge Hoover to pass the Adjusted Compensation Act (ACA).

Eleanor Roosevelt

Active supporter of a New Deal programs. Strong supporter of equal rights, (African American recovery programs).

Social Security Act

This piece of legislation set up a pension program for retirees and established unemployment insurance for workers who lost jobs.

Dust Bowl

Massive dust storms swept the region turning pasts of the Great Plans into the this.

Tennessee Valley Authority

Hired PPL to build dams and generators, bringing electricity and jobs to communities in Tennessee River Valley.

New Deal

Roosevelt and congress worked together to create new programs to battle the Depression and did economic recovery.

Fireside Chats

Series of 30th informal radio addresses delivered by president FDR to explain New Deal policies.

FDR

32nd president of the US, serving from 1933 until his death in 1945. He made New Deal programs.