Unit 1 Test Review - The Roaring Twenties

Mustafa Kemal (Ataturk)

Led a coalition of Turks in opposing post-WWI European occupation and supporting modernization.

Vladmir Lenin

Led the Bolsheviks to a complete overthrow of the monarchy and institution of communism in Russia.

Josef Stalin

Dictator who came to power following a power struggle by getting his supporters into key positions.

A. Mitchell Palmer

Attorney General who led a series of unconstitutional raids, which led to deportations. 

J Edgar Hoover

Served as a director of the FBI from its formation in the 1920s all the way to the 1970s.

Warren G Harding

Product of the Ohio political machine; known mostly for scandal and corruption. 

Calvin Coolidge

Strongly believed government should stay out of business; won re-election in 1924. Took over for Harding.

The Wright Brothers

Responsible for the first man-made machine-powered flight in world history.

Charles Lindbergh

Became pride of U.S by making first non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean.

Marcus Garvey

Promoted a message of black nationalism that included pride, self-help, and separation. 

President Wilson’s Fourteen Points

consisted of establishing free-trade and free-seas, disarmament of major world powers, and self-determination.

How Versailles dealt with the American Genocide

Versailles didn’t hold anyone accountable for human rights violation of likely killing over a million Armenians.

How the Treaty of Versailles punished Germany

Germany was punished with small armed-forces, to pay reparations of %33 billion, and massive territory was taken. 

The Senate’s beliefs about the Treaty of Versailles

Senate wanted no part, and rejected the League of Nations twice (every time it was brought up) . It was bound to create entangling alliances that would lead to future wars. 

The “Bloody Sunday” in Russia

It was a protest of 200,000 Russian workers outside the czars winter’s palace in support of political, economic, and social reforms. The Russian Army fired into the crowd, killed hundreds, and wounded thousands. 

The Russian Civil War

-the disunified coalition called the White Army lost the war

-It (and its resulting famine) resulted in 14 million deaths

-Its destruction led to the adoption of the New Economic Policy

The Tulsa Massacre

-It was an example of the racial violence after WWI

-It involved a prosperous black neighborhood being destroyed 

-it helped lead to a spike in NAACP membership

President Harding’s and Coolidge’s Cabinet

-cabinet members Charles Evan Hughes, Andrew Mellon, and Herbert Hoover stayed on for much of the 1920s.

What President Coolidge’s economic policies did

-Balancing the federal budget

-Lowering national debt (is cut in half)

-cutting taxes for all Americans

Indicators of the increased American standard of living in the 1920s.

-a tremendous increase in the size of middle class

-an average 22% rise in wages

-companies providing welfare capitalism benefits

Henry Ford’s impact on American

-a drastic reduction in the cost of all goods

-a new standard for industrial wages

-a movement by many Americans to the suburbs

Factors that drove the booming US economy in the 1920s

-new inventions that made life easier and better

-extremely persuasive advertisement on the radio

-the availability of consumer credit  

Problems faced by the immigrant class in the 1920s

-growth in “nativist” sentiments among American People

-Resurgence of the Ku Klutz Klan in the United States

-National Origins Act and Emergency Quota Act to limit amount and types of immigrants

The emergence of the modern woman

-Sigmund Freud’s interesting new theories

-new conversations and social norms

-woman gaining employment, starting in WWI

The Eugenics Movement

-grew in popularity as a “modern science”

-It encouraged sterilization for “inferior” human beings

-A supreme court case upheld its supposed validity

The Red Scare’s impact on America

-unconstitutional raids authorized by the Attorney General

-Deportations of people without proper trials

-the formation of the Federal Bureau of Investigation

The real impact of the Prohibition Era

-new police powers for federal government

-many arrests being made throughout the U.S

-large increase in alcohol consumption

-organized crime gaining power over the cities

The impact of mass media/radio on America

-creating a common, shared experience for Americans

-Beginning the era of the celebrity in sports and movies

-Exposing the public to nationally recognized products

What are the three ways, that I chose, liberals were embracing change in the roaring twenties

-embracing evolution

-the flapper image/modern woman

-the emergence of jazz

What are the three ways, that I chose, conservatives were rejecting change during the roaring twenties.

-fundamentalism

-the scopes trial/rejecting evolution

-Resurgence of the KKK