Baltimore Polytechnic Institute March 15, 2012 A.P. U.S. History Mr. Green

Test on Friday Focus Questions-Chapter 32 Due Friday

Objectives: Students will: Explain and analyze America’s turn toward social conservatism and normalcy following World War I. Describe the cultural conflicts of the 1920s over such issues as immigration, cultural pluralism, and prohibition; and describe the rise of organized crime during the decade. Describe the rise of Protestant Fundamentalism and its apparent defeat in the landmark Scopes Trial. AP Focus Concerned about the success of the Bolshevik Revolution, the United States, Britain, and other nations send troops to participate in the Russian Civil War in the hope of toppling Lenin’s communist government. Domestically, a systematic effort to suppress Bolsheviks, or reds, is launched. A political cartoon in The American Pageant (13 th ed., p. 721/14 th ed., p. 771) makes it abundantly clear that leftists have no place in American life. Intolerance grows in the nation after World War I. A new and more virulent nativist strain emerges in the reborn Ku Klux Klan, which has expanded its influence across the nation. To shrink immigration from certain areas of the world, a quota system is put in place. That and the Immigration Act of 1924 dramatically reduce eastern and southern European immigration.

CHAPTER THEMES A disillusioned America turned away from idealism and reform after World War I and toward isolationism in foreign affairs, domestic social conservatism, and the pleasures of prosperity. New technologies, mass-marketing techniques, and new forms of entertainment fostered rapid cultural change along with a focus on consumer goods. But the accompanying changes in moral values and uncertainty about the future produced cultural anxiety, as well as sharp intellectual critiques of American life.

July 1921-Joint resolution ended WWI “unofficial observers” at the League Rivalry between U.K. and U.S. over Middle East Washington Disarmament Conference no USSR 10 year “holiday” on battleship construction 5:5:3 ratio for U.S., U.K., and Japan 5 power Naval Treaty 9 Power Treaty-kept Open Door wide open Kellogg-Briand Pact of 1928

Never joined the World Court Exceptions armed intervention in Caribbean/C. America Dawes Plan U.S. shifted from a debtor nation to a creditor nation during WWI U.S. should write off loans as war costs Allies caused the U.S. boom Fordney-McCumber Tariff “they hired the money, didn’t they”

After the Crash, the Young Plan 1930 divide out the payments over 59 years

Election of 1928 Republicans-Herbert Hoover Democrats-Alfred E. Smith, 4-time Catholic governor of NY Radio played a role 21,391,993 to 15,016, to 87 1 st Republican in 52 years to carry a seceded state

Agricultural Marketing Act, June 1929 Federal Farm Board-cooperatives Buy up surpluses October 29, 1929-Stock Crash 5,000 banks collapsed in 1 st 3 years of depression Birthrates declined Hawley-Smoot Tariff of % to 60%

“Trickle-down philosophy” Public Works-Hoover Dam Reconstruction Finance Corporation indirect relief to insurance companies, banks, agricultural organizations, railroads, state/local governments Norris-La Guardia Anti-Injunction Act outlawed yellow dog contracts, stopped federal courts from issuing injunctions to stop strikes, boycotts or peaceful picketing Congress never helped Hoover and the 1930 mid- terms increased that uncooperative attitude Bonus Army-a final straw

Read Chapter 32 Prepare for 20 question quiz on Friday