Conservatism and Cultural Diversity in the 1920s

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Conservatism and Cultural Diversity in the 1920s
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Conservatism

• Red Scare
• Palmer Raids
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• KKK
• Nativism
• Scopes Trial
• Prohibition

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Mass Consumption economy

• Glorification of Business
• Booming economy
• Corporate revolution
• New White collar workers
• Advertising
• Scientific management
• Ford and the assembly line
• The Radio
• Airplane
• Movies

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Social Life in the 20s

• Urban life
• A sexual revolution
• Jazz
• Harlem Renaissance
• The Lost generation
• Architecture

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Politics in the 1920s

• Election of 1920
• Domestic aftermath of WWI
• Harding's administration
• Ohio Gang
• Teapot Dome Scandal
• Fordney-McCumber Tariff
• Appointed Conservatives to the Supreme Court

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Foreign Policy under Harding and Coolidge

• Isolationism after WWI
• Washington Disarmament Conference
• Dawes Plan of 1924
• Kellogg-Briand Pact

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The Great Depression and the New Deal 1929-1941
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Hoovers Presidency

• The Great Crash of 1929

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Causes

• Weak industries
• Overproduction of goods by manufactures
• Uneven distribution of Wealth
• Unstable Banking system

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Hoovers response to The Great Depression

• Hoovers philosophy
• Hawley Smoot Tariff
• Reconstruction Finance Corporation
• Bonus Army

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The New Deal

• First 100 days (The First New Deal) Relief,
  Recovery, Reform
• Banking relief
• Fireside chats
• AAA
• NIRA
• CCC
• TVA
• Second New Deal
• SS
• SEC
• Wagner Act (NLRB)

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Roosevelt and the Supreme Court

• NIRA and AAA were declared illegal
• Packing the court
• Judiciary Reorganization Bill (1937)

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Criticism and support of the New Deal

• Economy improved but did not recover
• The NEW Deal may have saved American Capitalism
  no Communist revolution occurred.
• Coughlin
• Long
• Townsend

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WWII1939-1945
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Foreign policy leading up to WWII

• Neutrality
• Cash and Carry
• Lend-Lease Act
• Atlantic Harbor

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US entry into WWII

• Pearl Harbor
• D-Day
• Executive order 9066
• Office of Price Administration
• War production board
• Manhattan Project
• An Atomic end