\ music and art ideas poetry, sculpture mvmt of black artists to harlem
Black people to north; 1920s
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What was the first talkie
\ The Jazz Singer;Â when film first came out there were silent movies and they would print what they just said; figured out sound in movies (talkies)
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Who led american forces in ww1
\ John âBlack Jackâ Persing
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What was Americaâs reaction when sank lusitania
1915; we made the Germans sign the sussex pledge which said they wonât try to sink american ships anymore and causes us to not get into the war
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Battle of chateau thierry
\ turning point; americans in france stop germans from reaching paris; once germans are beaten they realize they cannot win this war; end ww1Â
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Goal of league of nations
\ promote national corporations and national security; a place to work things out with each other instead of going to war; precursor to united nations; didnât work out because we got into another world warÂ
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Who were Sacco and Vanzetti
\ used to amplify american attitudes at the time; italian immigrants, catholic, atheist were accused of murder, convicted and executed bc we donât like their stereotypes (their attitude at the time gets them executed); like how after 9/11 people didn't like muslims; we are anti-immigrant and nativist
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What was FDRâs most successful program
TVA; Tennessee Valley Authority; put people to work for the dam and provided thousands of jobs, and still provides them today; was put out in the New Deal
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Who was F. Scott Fitzgerald
wrote great gatsby; white
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What was the Scopes Monkey Trial
\ creationism vs. evolution; w a teacher
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What was the Teapot Dome Scandal
under Hardingâs administration, but he didnât do anything; his secretary interior (Albert B. Fall) had a 400k bribe from a private oil company to drill on federal lands full of oil in Wyoming; very illegal; considered worst president of the time
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When WW1 ended, what was life like in the 1920s
\ good, roaring 20s and booming economy, flappers, but had no values whatsoever and just wanted to have fun and a good time, authors called them a lost generation like ernest and hemingway
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What was the cause of the dust bowl
\ overfarming
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What did hoover do when depression start
nothing
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What is buying on margin
investing on stock when you don't have the money
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Who was John Maynard Keynes
Keynesian economics; big deficit spending for the goverment is okay for a time period; creates work for people and theyâll pay back in taxes
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What was the purpose of lend lease
\ \ at begging of WW2, so he comes up w ideas to help europeans, US lends Europe weapons
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What does it mean to cash and carry
\ cash and carry: bring cash to america and carry back in your own ships; if germans see us theyâll sink us
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What is the Atlantic charter
\ get together and talk ab war; churchill and our pres; put germany first over japan in terms of enemies
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what is the Stimson doctrine
\ US wouldnât recognize treaties between Japan and China that violate US rights/agreements; in response to Japanese conquest of China
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Where was Macarthur when WW2 starts
\ Philippines
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**What is FDRâs executive order 90026**
\ Â japanese internment camps from west coast
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What is Midway
turning point of war in pacific
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What is Stalingrad
\ Â turning point of war in europe
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What is Operation Torch
ally operation in north africa in ww2 (start of invasion against Germany)
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What is Operation Barbarossa
 code name for hitlerâs invasion of the soviet union
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What is the code name for US invasion of normandy (D-D day code name)
\ overlord
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What is the Manhattan project
\ hiroshima; code for atomic bomb project
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What is the Selective service act
\ something women were not susceptible to; only drafting young men for the war not women
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What is Declaration of liberty europe
created at the Yalta Conference
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What is Yalta Conference
stalin, truman, and churchill get together to decide what post world war will look like
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what were alfred thayer mahanâs beliefs
wrote the influence of sea power, what he thought every country needed to be successfulâŚstrong economy, large merchant fleet, strong navy, colonies, and canal
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what was the treaty of versailles
A treaty signed by Allies and Germany. Stabbed Germany in the back. Made Germany mad; had to pay reparations, disarm, lose territory, and give up overseas colonies
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what was the munich conference
\- Daladier (France) - Chamberlain (G.B) - Mussolini (Italy) - Hitler (Germany) attended; 6 months later hitler took over Czechoslovakia
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what was woodrow wilsonâs 14 points
transparency in international relations, free trade, freedom of the seas, reductions in armaments, national self-determination, and adjustment of colonial claims that gave equal weight to the peoples of the colonized countries.
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what was the russian revolution
the bolsheviks seized power and to destroy traditional rule, they later became the communist party of the soviet union
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what is bolshevik
a member of a wing of russian social democratic workers party
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What empires collapsed due to WW2
Russian, Ottoman, Austro-Hungarian, and German
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What did the 18th amendment do?
Prohibition of alcohol in 1919. Lasted from 1919-1933. Result of temperance movement. Ban of alcohol
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What were turning points of WW1?
1\. The U.S. joining \n 2. Russia dropping out of the war
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the reason for the economy booming
because of disposable income
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What went into the stock market slowly declining?
1\. Over production \n 2. Over Borrowing \n 3. Uneven Distribution of Wealth