The document provides biographical information about three US Presidents from the 1920s - Harding, Coolidge, and Hoover - and discusses Hoover's background and career prior to becoming President. It notes that Harding won the presidency with 60% of the vote but had a scandal-plagued administration. Coolidge became president after Harding's death and pursued an isolationist foreign policy with tax cuts and limited aid to farmers. The document focuses on Hoover's career as a mining engineer, his relief work during World War I and aftermath in Belgium, his role leading US agricultural production during the war, and his position as Secretary of Commerce under Harding and Coolidge.
HISTORY YEAR 10: RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL INTOLERANCE IN AMERICAGeorge Dumitrache
Religious fundamentalism. What was the 'Monkey Trial'? Attitudes towards Black Americans and racial minorities. Who were the KKK? The response of the black people.
This discussest the inter-war period for the United States, which we call ther Roaring 20s. It covers important social, political, and economic topics associated with the 1920s.
HISTORY YEAR 10: RELIGIOUS AND RACIAL INTOLERANCE IN AMERICAGeorge Dumitrache
Religious fundamentalism. What was the 'Monkey Trial'? Attitudes towards Black Americans and racial minorities. Who were the KKK? The response of the black people.
This discussest the inter-war period for the United States, which we call ther Roaring 20s. It covers important social, political, and economic topics associated with the 1920s.
UNIT 5-GREAT DEPRESSION OF 1929 AND THE NEW DEALSanskritiRazdan
The Great Depression was the worst economic downturn in US history. It began in 1929 and did not abate until the end of the 1930s. The stock market crash of October 1929 signaled the beginning of the Great Depression. By 1933, unemployment was at 25 percent and more than 5,000 banks had gone out of business.
Chapter 19-outlineI. Introduction American Liberal InternationaEstelaJeffery653
Chapter 19-outline
I. Introduction: American Liberal Internationalism
A. This vision, articulated by President Woodrow Wilson, rested on the conviction that economic and political progress went hand in hand, both domestically and internationally.
II. An Era of Intervention
A. "I Took the Canal Zone"
1. Roosevelt was more active in international diplomacy than most of his predecessors.
2. Roosevelt pursued a policy of intervention in Central America.
a. Panama
B. The Roosevelt Corollary
1. The United States had the right to exercise "an international police power" in the Western Hemisphere.
a. Venezuela and the Dominican Republic
2. Taft emphasized economic investment and loans from American banks, rather than direct military intervention.
a. Dollar Diplomacy
C. Moral Imperialism
1. Wilson repudiated Dollar Diplomacy and promised a new foreign policy that would respect Latin America’s independence.
2. He believed that the export of American manufactured goods and investments went hand in hand with the spread of democratic ideals.
3. Wilson’s moral imperialism produced more military interventions in Latin America than any president before or since.
D. Wilson and Mexico
1. The Mexican Revolution began in 1911.
2. When civil war broke out in Mexico, Wilson ordered American troops to land at Veracruz.
a. Mexicans greeted the marines as invaders rather than as liberators.
3. Mexican factions fought among themselves.
a. Pancho Villa
III. America and the Great War
A. Neutrality and Preparedness
1. War broke out in Europe in 1914.
2. The war dealt a severe blow to the optimism and self-confidence of Western civilization.
3. As war engulfed Europe, Americans found themselves sharply divided.
4. Wilson proclaimed American neutrality, but American commerce and shipping were soon swept into the conflict.
a. Lusitania
5. By the end of 1915, Wilson embarked on a policy of preparedness.
B. The Road to War
1. Wilson won reelection in 1916 on the slogan "He Kept Us Out of War."
2. Wilson called for a "peace without victory," but Germany resumed submarine warfare.
3. The Zimmermann Telegram was intercepted in 1917.
4. Voices of Freedom (Primary Source document feature) highlights Wilson’s "War Message to Congress" (1917).
C. The Fourteen Points
1. Russia pulled out of the war after the Lenin Revolution in 1917.
2. Wilson issued the Fourteen Points in January 1918.
a. They established the agenda for the peace conference that followed the war.
3. When American troops finally arrived in Europe, they turned the tide of battle.
IV. The War at Home
A. The Progressives’ War
1. Some Progressives viewed the war as an opportunity to disseminate Progressive values around the globe.
B. The Wartime State
1. The war created a national state with unprecedented powers and a sharply increased presence in Americans’ everyday lives.
a. Selective Service Act
b. War Industries Board
c. War Labor Board
C. The Propaganda War
1. The Wilson administration decided that patriotism was to ...
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