1. “Normalcy” and Isolationism
Chapter 22
Section 1

2. Americans struggle with postwar issues
Unions/ striking workers
Communism
Tired and needing to return to Isolationism!

3. Measures Taken by Harding Administration
Goal: To Maintain World Peace
Arranged international conference
Proposed a ten-year halt to building warships
Proposed a disarmament agreement
Urged passage of the Kellogg-Briand Treaty, renouncing war

4. Harding’s Ohio Gang Herbert Hoover Sec. of Commerce
Andrew Mellon Sec. of Treasury
Charles Forbes Veterans Bureau
Albert Fall Sec. of Interior
V.P. Coolidge

5. Issues of the Day Harding on Administration scandals
Upset, embarrassed
Ohio gang on Public service
selfish, self-serving, disrespectful, dishonest
Forbes stole millions of $$$
Fall made an illegal deal in Teapot Dome
Americans on Harding
Respectful, accepting, understanding, approving

6. Issues of the Day Americans on the Kellogg-Briand Pact
Jubilant, happy, optimistic
However, how realistic is this idea?
How will it be enforced?

7. The Russian Revolution
1917 Russia a mess
Czar Nicholas II blamed
Revolution occurs, led by V.I. Lenin and the Bolsheviks
1919 speakers of the Communist Party speak about worldwide revolution

8. How did the Justice Department respond?
Launched raids against suspected Communists, socialists, and anarchists
Arrested, jailed, deported suspected radicals
Warned of a Communist plot to overthrow the U.S, government
Police Arrest “Suspected Reds’ in Chicago, 1920
A. Mitchell Palmer’s Home Bombed, 1920

9. Why was the strike at U.S. Steel so unpopular?
People believed the steel companies’ propaganda linking the leaders and the strikers to communism
Violence had broken out, which alarmed a public that was still ignorant of the severe working conditions in the mills

10. Why did Massachusetts governor Calvin Coolidge become so popular?
Called in the national guard to restore order, leading to the end of the strike
Forced anyone involved in scandals to resign

11. Why were these guys executed in 1927?
Sacco and Vanzetti
Why were these guys executed in 1927?

12. Issues of the Day Americans on Immigrants
Nativist, racist, nationalist, isolationist, negative
Thought immigrants would come and take jobs from people already living in America and struggling to find work

13. First Winter Olympics
1924
Chamonix, France