USA: WWI and the 1920s | Quizlet

Wilsonianism (1913-1921)

Replaced dollar diplomacy with moral diplomacy, promoting American values by supporting democratic governments and opposing undemocratic ones

Causes of US intervention in Europe (1917-1918)

- RMS Lusitania, May 7, 1915

- The Zimmerman Telegram (a secret note from Germany to Mexico is intercepted by British services), March 1, 1917

- Germany's declaration of unrestricted submarine warfare

Woodrow Wilson's war message

"the war to end all wars" "peace without victory" "the world must be made safe for democracy"

November 11, 1918

Armistice Day - today Veterans Day in the U.S.

January 8, 1918

Wilson's Fourteen Points

- 13th point - establishment of an independent Poland

- Establishment of the League of Nations (USA NEVER joins it)

- Germans must pay war reparations

1919

Treaty of Versailles, Wilson - U.S. Senate REJECTS the Treaty and the USA NEVER joins the League of Nations

Return to Normalcy

Warren G. Harding -departure from progressive themes

1920s

Era of Prosperity, Jazz Age, Roaring Twenties, "live now, pay tomorrow", automobiles, mass production of consumer goods, adds, electrical devices, growing debts, widening gap rich vs. poor, The Great Migration of African-Americans from the South to northern cities, radio, Art Deco

1920

19th Amendment - USA Women's Suffrage

Harlem Renaissance

An African American cultural movement that flourished in the 1920s and had Harlem in New York City as its symbolic capital

Jim Crow Laws/Black Codes

Laws passed at different periods in the southern United States to enforce racial segregation

1919

18th Amendment (Prohibition)

- speakeasy, moonshine, bootlegging

- organized criminal groups, crime

- lots of people making fortunes on prohibition

1933

21st Amendment (ends Prohibition)