1 War and Neutral Rights
- Germany and Austria-Hungary against Britain, France, and Russia
- Submarine
- May 7, 1915
- Woodrow Wilson
2 United States Enters World War I
- Resumed unrestricted submarine warfare
- General John J. Pershing
- C - Establishment of a totalitarian regime in Germany
- November 11, 1918
3 The League of Nations
- B - false
- Wilson had failed to involve leading Republicans in the treaty negotiations; while on a national tour to appeal for support, he suffered a crippling stroke from which he never fully recovered
- B - false
4 Postwar Unrest
- B - false
- A - Bolsheviks
- Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
- Answers will vary
5 The Booming 1920s
- D - Warren G. Harding
- Suffrage (right to vote) for women
- Brought American trade barriers to new heights, guaranteeing U.S. manufacturers a monopoly of the domestic market, but blocking a healthy trade with Europe that would have reinvigorated the international economy; contributed to a collapsing cycle of world trade that intensified world economic misery
- Andrew Mellon
- Calvin Coolidge
- Transportation Act of 1920 restored the railroads to private management; Merchant Marine was sold to private operators
- Loss of foreign markets due to U.S. tariff policy and worldwide phenomenon of excess farm production
- Answers will vary
6 Tensions over Immigration
- Russian Jews, Poles, Slavic peoples, Greeks, and southern Italians; non-Protestant, "non-Nordic," and, many Americans feared, nonassimilable
- Wanted to send them back to Europe
- Established an immigration quota for each nationality
7 Clash of Cultures
- William Jennings Bryan
- Clarence Darrow
- Prohibited the manufacture, sale, or transportation of alcoholic beverages
- Speakeasies
- Bootlegging
- C - 1933
- H.L. Mencken
- F. Scott Fitzgerald
- Sinclair Lewis
- Ernest Hemingway
- National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)
- African-American literary and artistic movement of the 1920s
- D - Michael Buble
8 The Great Depression
- The booming stock market crashed, wiping out many investors
- D - 20%
- Attempted to organize business, had sped up public works schedules, established the Reconstruction Finance Corporation to support businesses and financial institutions, and had secured from a reluctant Congress an agency to underwrite home mortgages
- A - Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Answers will vary
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