20’s to WWII Terms, Concepts, Names, and Essay Questions

The New Era Walt Disney Five-Power Pact Phillip Randolph Life Magazine Nine-Power Pact Henry Ford The Grapes of Wrath Kellogg-Briand Pact The Jazz Singer Nye Committee Margaret Sanger Hawley-Smoot Act Charles D. Dawes The Flapper Hoovervilles Forney-McCumber Act Alice Paul Reconstruction Finance Henry Stimson League of Women Voters Bonus Expeditionary Force Charles Lindberg General Douglas MacArthur Neutrality Acts 1936-1937 Lost Generation Franklin Delano Roosevelt Cash-and-carry Policy Ernest Hemingway “” Axis Sinclair Lewis USS Panay F. Scott Fitzgerald The Munich Conference John Dewey “The only thing we have to fear Non-Aggression Pact Charles and Mary Beard is fear itself” Wendell Willkie Harlem Renaissance Bank Holiday Lend-Lease Langston Hughes Garden Hose Speech The Noble Experiment General Douglas MacArthur Al Capone Agricultural Adjustment Act Admiral Chester Nimitz National Origin Act of 1924 Rural Electrification Midway Island D.W. Griffith: Birth of a Nation Administration Soloman Islands The New Klan National Industrial Recovery Act Guadalcanal Fundamentalists Public Works Administration General George C. Marshall Modernists Tennessee Valley Authority General George S. Patton The Man Nobody Knows - Barton Glass-Steagall Act The Holocaust American Civil Liberties Union Federal Emergency Relief No-Strike Pledge The Scopes Trial Administration Office of Price Administration Al Smith Civilian Conservation Corps Revenue Act of 1942 Herbert Hoover Home Owners’ Loan Corporation Warren G. Harding Federal Housing Administration Fair Employment Practices Calvin Coolidge Commission The Ohio Gang Dr. Francis E. Townsend A. Philip Randolph Teapot Dome Scandal Social Security System Congress on Racial Equality Andrew Mellon Father Charles E. Coughlin Code-Talkers Senator Huey P. Long Braceros The Great Depression Share-Our Wealth Society Pachucos The Great Crash National Labor Relations Act Zoot-Suit Riots Reparations Rosie the Riveter Deflation Works Progress Administration Japanese Internment Dustbowl National Youth Administration Okies Party Realignment Korematsu v. US, 1944 Scottsboro Case Court Packing Scheme Harry S. Truman Chicanos Fair Labor Standards Act D-Day Japanese American Citizens Black Cabinet General Dwight D. Eisenhower League Indian Reorganization Act Battle of the Bulge Depression families and culture Francis Perkins VE Day Documentary Photographers Iwo Jima Tobacco Road (1932) The Global Crisis, 1921-1941 Kamikazes Native Son (1940) Isolationism Manhattan Project Radio Washington Conference J. Robert Oppenheimer Soap Operas Four-Power Pact Enola Gay

Essay Questions

The 1920’s were a period of tension between new and changing attitudes on the one hand, and traditional values and nostalgia on the other. What led to the tension between the old and the new, AND in what ways was the tension manifested?

“The economic policies of the federal government from 1921 to 1929 were responsible for the nation’s depression of the 1930s.” Assess the validity of this generalization.

Analyze the ways in which the Great Depression altered the American social fabric in the 1930s.

“Although American writers of the 1920s and 1930s criticized American society, the nature of their criticism differed markedly in the two decades.” Assess the validity of this statement with specific references to writers in both decades.

What impact did the Great Depression have on the American culture?

Identify THREE of the following New Deal measures and analyze the ways in which each of the three attempted to fashion a more stable economy and a more equitable society. Agricultural Adjustment Act Securities and Exchange Commission Wagner National Labor Relations Act Social Security Act

“Shifts in party control of the presidency during the twentieth century have typically not brought major shifts in domestic policy.” Assess the validity of this statement. Illustrate your argument by discussing the extent to which the following presidents adopted the domestic programs of the previous presidential administrations given in parenthesis beneath their names. Woodrow Wilson (administrations of William H. Taft and ) Franklin D. Roosevelt (administration of Herbert Hoover)

“President Franklin D. Roosevelt is commonly thought of as a liberal and President Herbert C. Hoover as a conservative.” To what extent are these characterizations valid?

To what extent and why did the United States adopt an isolationist policy in the 1920s and 1930s?

Compare and contrast the impact of the war on the many ethnic, gender, and racial groups in America.

“The United States decision to drop the atomic bomb on Hiroshima was a diplomatic measure calculated to intimidate the Soviet Union in the post-Second-World-War era rather than a strictly military measure designed to force Japan’s unconditional surrender.” Evaluate this statement using documents and your knowledge of the diplomatic and military history of the years 1939-1947.