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What is demobilization

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(transformation fro wartime to peace production level).

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After WW1 ended abruptly what happened

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  1. full capacity production of military supplies ended
  2. wartime business lost 2 Billion in gov. contracts.
  3. wartime consumer good shortages = high prices.
    caused a recession of 1920-21
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how many soldiers came back from WW1

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4.5 million returned

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What happened after the soldiers returned

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Women were forced to give up their jobs

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After women giving up their jobs what did this cause

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This caused the unemployment rate to rise and wages to fall.

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What did future workers demand

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They demanded shorter working hours with higher pay which caused strikes

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Which working groups were a part of the strikes

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  1. Shipyard workers
  2. Police
  3. coal miners
  4. steel workers
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what were the demands of the working groups on strikes

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One day off per week

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Who was to blame for the strikes

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Russia and the Bolsheviks rising agains their government

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Strikers were compared to the Bolsheviks. what were they considered

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anti-american

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what is the red scare

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A violent wave of anti-communist hysteria in the US from 1919-1920

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what was the Bolshevik revolution consisted of what

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Installed a communist gov in Russia.
Russia owned all private properties, industries, and factories.

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where did communism soon spread to

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Bavaria and Hungary

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Who is Nicola Sacco

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A shoemaker

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Who is Bartolomeo vanzetti?

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A fish peddler

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What did Sacco and Vanzetti believe in?

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Radicals who believed in Political reform

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Why were Sacco and Vanzetti accused

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becuase of their political beliefs

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Who was A mitchell palmer

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An attorney general who oversaw the palmer raids during the red scare.

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What happened to the people who were part of the palmer raids

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over 600 got deported
- seized without warrants
- Denied attorneys
- deprived of food and water

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Why did the Palmer raids happen

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they happened so that the gov could get rid of the immigrants and possible suspected communist.

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Who was Warren G Harding

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Republican president
- won 60% popular vote

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What was Hardings Pro business plateform

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  1. he promised lower taxes
  2. Higher tariffs (tax on imports)
  3. limits on immigration
    4.aid to farmers
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What was harding for

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1.Healing
2. Normalcy
3. Restoration

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who became president after wilson

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Warren G Harding

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What was harding against
1. the league of nations 2. social wlefare programs
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What did warren harding put together?
The poker cabinet - hired friends -corrupt systme
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What is the teapot Dome affair
Albert fall takes government owned land (oil fields) and gives it to his friends to make profits for themselves.
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After harding dies who takes over
Vice president, Calvin Coolidge
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what was calvin coolidge was against
social welfare programs
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what did coolidge believe
The business of America is Business
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What did coolidge do with our debt
reduce the national debt and spent low amounts
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who is president after Calvin coolidge
herbert Hoover
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What did herbert Hoover create
Bureau of Standards stardizing manufacturing
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who was the Wonder boy
herbert hoover
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what was standarized
1. nuts and bolts 2. tires 3. mattresses 4. electrical fixtures
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what did Hoover support
1. zoning regulations (to build certian things in certian palces) 2. 8 hour work days 3. improved nutrition for children 4. conservation of natural resources
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industrial productivity went up by how much
70%
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extra credit GDP
Tuvalu GDP 64,000,000
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What were the 3 causes of industrial productivity
1. Republican business policis 2. New technology (electric motors) 3. The Assembly line
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What were the effects of the causes of industrial productivity
1. National economic growth 2. companies need better offices/buildings 3. growing urban population =new homes 4. spreading pop.=new roads
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14 hours to build a modle t car cost how much
$850
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what resources boomed beucase of Ford's mass production
steel, rubber, glass, petroleum, machine tools, and road building
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american standard living rose by..... what does this create
11% creates an improvment standard living
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new improvment consumer products included
refrigerators packaged slice bread toasters vacuum cleaners electric irons washing machines
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What did people do on their leasure time
radios photogrpahy telephones cars
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What was the 1920's most biggest business
Automobiles test question
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What did the automobiles affect in american culture
1. Dating 2. sunday outing 3. vacations 4. tourism 5. shopping
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Prohibitation means to prohibit. What is being prohibited
Alcohol
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what did the 18th amendment say
Forbid the manufacturing sale transportation of alcohol
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what did we hope for by forbiding alcohol
1. poverty 2. violence 3. crime
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what is the Volstead act
Declared that beverages with 1/2 of 1% alcohol was intoxicating
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what did the jazz age highlight
movies, sports, music
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who were the actors of the jazz age
mary Pickford - actor of the 1920's gloria swanson - fashion rudolph Valentino - didnt make it out of 1920's alive
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name their sport category Babe Ruth- oscar charleston - jack Dempsey - Helen Wills - red grange - bobby jones -
Babe Ruth- Baseball oscar charleston - Baseball jack Dempsey -Boxing Helen Wills - Tennis red grange - Football bobby jones - Golf
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how did movies , sports, and music define american culture
helped transform taste and behaviors 1. dress style 2. hair style it was a get away
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who was bessie smith
blues singer of that time
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who was Louise armstrong
jazz trumpet player
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Who was the Lone Eagle -1927
Charles Lindbergh, a piolet first piolet to fly across the atlantic to paris.
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How long did it take for charles to fly
33 1/2 hours
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What were Blues
Work songs and field chants of enslaved African americans
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jazz created by who
African americans in new orleans. Notes were never written.
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Stock market speculation
taking financial risks hopes of making large profits
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stocks
shares in a business ownership
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buy low =
sell high
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what day did the stock market crash
black tuesday october 29, 1929
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note: banks paid ...
7% per year on savings accounts
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whats margin
to buy a stock with only downpayment (10%), then borrow
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what did stock brokers do
Loan the other 90%
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Brokers actually borrowed money from where
Banks
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the Great Depression
A period of severley reduced economic activity coupled with high unempployment
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stock prices dropped and stock brokers couldt repay what
bank loans
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what were the cuases of the great depression
1. stock market speculaiton 2. depressed industry 3.underconsumption 4. Monetary ploicy 5. Loss of Foreign trade
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Stock market speculation cuased the great dep bc
margin buying gambling with short term investments
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Depressed industry cuased the great dep bc
farming textiles lumber mining railroads
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underconsumotion caused the great dep bc
wages were dropping workers were laid off people stopped buying stuff
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monetary caused the great dep bc
-did not insure saving accounts -restricted credit -low supply of money in circulation
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loss of foreign trade caused the great dep bc
-no more loans oveseas -high tarrifs -the continued poor us economy in 1930s kept foreign nations away.

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