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America in the 1920s and 1930s: Politics, Economy, and Society

Learn about the significant events and key figures of the 1920s and 1930s in America, such as the Prohibition, Great Depression, New Deal, critics of the New Deal, and the road to WWII. Discover how these events shaped American society, politics, and economy during this transformative era.

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America in the 1920s and 1930s: Politics, Economy, and Society

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  1. DAY 5

  2. RED, KKK AND IMMIGRANTS • A. Mitchell Palmer- Fighting Quaker • Godsend to conservatives and businessmen • Kill Labor • Sacco and Vanzetti • KKK • Anti: foreign, Catholic, black, Jewish, pacifists, communist, revolutionary, bootleggers, gambling, adultery, birth control. • Foreign • Emergency Quota Act 1921 • Immigration Act 1924

  3. Americanism • Seattle General Strike • Boston Police Strike • Steel Strike • United Mine Workers of America • John L Lewis • Palmer Raids

  4. PROHIBITION, GANGS, SCOPES • Prohibition • Volstead Act • Dry vs. wet • Gangs • Chicago • Al Capone • Charles Lindbergh • St. Valentines day massacre • Scopes • Dayton Tennessee • Clarence Darrow • WJB

  5. The Mass-Consumption Economy • Automobile • The Man Nobody Knows • Babe Ruth • Jack Dempsey • Frederick W. Taylor • Model T. Ford • Flying • Charles Lindbergh • Spirit of St. Louis

  6. Radio, Hollywood, and God • Marconi • Amos n Andy • The Birth of a Nation • The Jazz Singer • Margaret Sanger • Come to Church v. Devil • Flappers • Racial Pride • Marcus Garvey- UNIA • Post WWI writing

  7. Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 • “Dark Horse Candidate” • Republican • VP-Calvin Coolidge • Secretary of State-Charles E. Hughes • Major Items: • Teapot Dome Scandal • Ohio Gang • Washington Conference 1921-22 • 5 Power Treaty • Fordney-McCumber Tariff 1922 • From 27% Underwood to 38.5%

  8. Warren G. Harding 1921-1923 • Esc-Cumming Transportation • Railroads go to private ownership • Return to Normalcy • Chicago Race Riots • Clark Memorandum • Dawes Plan

  9. Calvin Coolidge 1923-1929 • Republican • VP-Dawes • Secretary of State-Frank Kellogg • Major Items: • Muscle Shoals • Kellogg-Briand Pact 1928 • McNary-Haugen Bill

  10. Herbert Hoover 1929-1933 • Republican • VP-Curtis • Secretary of State-Henry L. Stimson • Major Items: • National Origins Immigration Act 1929 • Panic and Depression • Stock Market Crash 1929

  11. Great Depression • Hawley-Smoot Tariff 1930 • Reconstruction Finance Corporation • Bonus Army

  12. Franklin D. Roosevelt 1933-1945 • Democrat • Eleanor Roosevelt • VP-Garner, Wallace, Truman • Major Items: • New Deal and alphabet government(AAA, CCC, NIRA, SEC, TVA, etc) • Second New Deal (WPA, Wagner Act, Social Security, etc) • Huey Long • Court Packing Scheme

  13. First Hundred Days: Glass-Steagall, SEC, HOLC, FHA, FERA, CCC, PWA, AAA, NIRA, TVA • Relief, Recovery and Reform • The Banking Crisis • Emergency Banking Relief Act 1933 • HOLA • Glass-Stegall Banking Reform • Securities and Exchange Commission

  14. CCC • FERA • PWA • WPA • NYA • AAA • Dust Bowl

  15. NIRA • Section 7a • NRA • Blue Eagle • Wagner Act • CIO • Fair Labor Standards • TVA • FHA • Social Security Act • Indian Reorganization Act

  16. Critics of the New Deal • The American Liberty League • Father Charles Coughlin • Senator Huey Long • Share our Wealth • Dr. Francis Townsend • Schechter vs. US • Butler vs. US • Judiciary Reorganization Bill

  17. Road to WWII • Treaty of Versailles • League of Nations • Washington Conference • Locarno Pact • Kellogg-Briand Pact • Dawes Plan • Great Depression • Good Neighbor • Clark Memorandum • Montevideo Conference • Declaration of Lima • Declaration of Panama • London Economic Conference • FDR Recognizes USSR • Tyding-McDuffie Act • Jones Act • Mussolini • Hitler • Communism • Japan • Hoover-Stimson Doctrine • Triparte Pact • Neutrality Act 1935,1936, 1937 • Spanish Civil War • Rome Berlin Axis

  18. WWII • FDR Quarantine Speech • Chamberlain-Appeasement • Sudetenland • Munich Conference • Nazi-Soviet Non-Aggression Pact • Blitzkrieg • Cash and Carry • Fall of France • Battle of Britain • Tripartite Pact • Lebensraum • Selective Service

  19. WWII • America First Committee • Destroyer-Bases Deal • Election of 1940 • Four Freedoms Speech • Lend Lease • Shoot-on-sight • Atlantic Charter • Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere • Japanese Embargo • Tojo • Pearl Harbor

  20. US in WWII • Sun Belt • Rosie the Riveter • WAC’s, WAVES, WAF’s • War Production Board • Office of Economic Stabilization • Smith Connoly Antistrike act • Manhattan Project • A. Philip Randolph • March on Washington • Bracero Program • Zoot Suit Riots • Executive Order 9066

  21. Battles • Bataan Death March • Stalingrad • D-Day • El Alamein • Invasion of Germany • Battle of the Bulge • Battle of Coral Sea • Battle of Midway • Holocaust • Russia • Japan

  22. Conferences • Potsdam • Casablanca • Cairo • Tehran • Yalta • Potsdam

  23. Harry S. Truman 1945-1953 • Democrat • VP-Barkley • Major Item: • WW II ends- atomic bomb • Taft-Hartley Act 1947 • Truman Doctrine 1947 • Marshall Plan 1947 • Berlin Airlift • North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) • Fall of China to communism 1949 • Korea 1950-1953 • “Fair Deal”

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