The 20

1
1920-1945

• The 20s
• Hoover and the Depression
• FDR and the New Deal
• Events leading to WWII
• WWII

2
Major Themes

• Urban vs. Rural, Modern vs. Traditional conflict
• The 1920s Economy The Auto Age The Age of
  the Consumer
• The Impact of the 18th and 19th Amendments
• Prohibition
• The New Woman

3
Major Themes

• The Harlem Renaissance and the New Negro
• Pop Culture of the 20s
• Causes of the Depression
• Hoover vs. FDR response to the Depression

4
Major Themes

• 1938-1941 -- Isolationism vs. Internationalism
• Military course of WWII
• WWII The Homefront
• The atomic bombs

5
Key Terms

• The Reed-Johnson Act
• The National Origins Act
• The Tulsa Riots (1921)
• Sacco and Vanzetti
• Aimee Semple McPherson
• Billy Sunday

• Margaret Sanger
• Claude McKay
• Langston Hughes
• Marcus Garvey
• Charles Lindbergh
• Babe Ruth
• Rudolph Valentino
• Clara Bow

6
Key Terms

• The Bonus Army (1932)
• The Reconstruction Finance Corporation (RFC)
• Clarence Darrow
• William Jennings Bryan
• John T. Scopes

• Hoovervilles
• The October Crash (1929)
• CCC
• TVA
• WPA
• NRA
• FDIC
• HOLC

7
Key Terms

• The 100 Days
• Huey Long
• The Wagner Act
• The Social Security Act
• The Roosevelt Recession
• Court Packing
• The Atlantic Charter
• The Greer Incident

• Destroyers for Bases
• Lend Lease
• The War Warning Dispatch
• Poil Hobba
• Operation Torch
• Island Hopping
• Internment
• Korematsu v. U.S. (1944)

8
Key Terms

• The Big Three
• Teheran
• Yalta
• Potsdam
• The Potsdam Declaration