APUSH Review Terms for WWI and 1920s
Key Names
George Creel
David Lloyd Garrison
Georges Clemnceau
Vittorio Orlando
Woodrow Wilson
Henry Cabot Lodge
Attorney General Palmer
Sacco & Vanzetti
Pancho Villa
Allied Powers
Central Powers
Alfred Smith
Henry Ford
William Jennings Bryant
Clarence Darrow
Key Terms
Neutrality
Submarine warfare
Propaganda
Assembly Line
Fundamentalism
Revivalists
Lost Generation
Harlem Renaissance
Reparations
Prohibition
Consumerism: autos,
radios, movies
Key Events
Espionage Act
Sedition Act
Selective Service Act
Russian Revolution
Zimmerman Telegram
Red Scare
Palmer Raid
League of Nations
Fourteen Points
Treaty of Versailles
18th & 21st Amendment
Ku Klux Klan
Organized Crime
Scopes Trial
Immigration Quotas
Jazz Age
The Roaring Twenties
Area One: Politics and Government
Question: Were the twenties a retreat from Progressivism or an extension of reform?
a.
b.
c.
d.
The Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover Administrations
The Harding scandals and the Bonus Bill veto
The effects of the 19th Amendment
Hoover and the Hawley-Smoot Tariff
Area Two: Economics
Question: The twenties: a business person’s paradise or an economic dirge?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Influence of Henry Ford
The agricultural problem and labor unrest
The growth of mass production
Prosperity and innovation
Area Three: Cultural Clashes
Question: Was this an age of unlawful protest or legal repression?
a.
b.
c.
d.
e.
f.
Red Scare and Palmer Raids
Immigration restriction versus Golden Door
Traditional moral values versus modernists (Prohibition/Scopes Trial)
New women versus Victorian values
Race relations/KKK/Garveyism
Urbanism vs. Suburbanism/Migration of African-Americans
Area Four: Diplomacy and Foreign Affairs
Question: Are the twenties best remembered as a period of isolation or one of internationalism?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Role of US in disarmament conferences
Dawes and Young Plans for reparations
Relations with Mexico and Latin America
Kellogg-Briand Peace Pact
Area Five: Mass Culture
Question: Was the so-called “Jazz Age” characterized as carefree or insecure?
a.
b.
c.
d.
Harlem Renaissance/Jazz
Lost Generation
Creation of mass culture by radio, movies, and popular magazines
Increased leisure time/professional sports, amusement parks, national parks