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Unit Plan- Modern America Emerges (1914-1929)
Essential Questions
1. How did American involvement in World War I change its standing in the world?
2. How did the actions of the federal government affect the America homefront
economically and socially?
3. How did the experience of WWI, create a desire for Americans to return to normalcy?
4. How did modernity create conflict with traditional American norms and values?
Identifications
Militarism
Alliance
Imperialism
Nationalism
Archduke Franz Ferdinand
Gavrilo Princip
Trench Warfare
“No Man’s Land”
Blockade
U-Boats
Lusitania
1916 Election
Zimmerman Telegram
Selective Service Act
Convoy System
John J. Pershing
Meuse-Argonne area
Conscientious objector
Doughboys
Mechanized warfare
Armistice
War Industries Board
National War Labor Board
Victory gardens
Liberty Bonds
Propaganda
Committee on Public
Information
Espionage and Sedition Acts
Great Migration
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Treaty of Versailles
The Big Four
Reparations
War-guilt clause
Irreconcilables
Proponents
Reservationists
Lodge
Borah
Red Scare
A. Mitchell Palmer
Palmer raids
FBI
Radicals
Anarchists
Sacco and Vanzetti
KKK
“A Return to Normalcy”
Isolationism
Warren G. Harding
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Nativism
Emergency Quota Act of
1921
1924 Immigration Law
Ohio Gang
Albert Fall
Teapot Dome Scandal
Henry Ford and Model T
Urban sprawl
Prohibition
18th Amendment
21st Amendment
Volstead Act
Speakeasies
Bootleggers
Moonshiners
Al Capone
Fundamentalism
Scopes Trial
John Scopes
Clarence Darrow
William Jennings Bryan
Flapper
Winter Olympics
Charles Lindbergh
Lindbergh kidnapping
Charlie Chaplin
The Jazz Singer
George Gershwin
Georgia O’Keefe
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Ernest Hemmingway
Great Migration
NAACP
W.E.B. DuBois
UNIA
Marcus Garvey
Harlem Renaissance
Claude McKay
Zora Neale Hurston
Langston Hughes
Paul Robeson
Louis Armstrong
Duke Ellington
Bessie Smith
Important Dates
Beginning of WWI in Europe
US Entrance into WWI
Armistice
Woodrow Wilson’s Presidency
Warren Harding’s Presidency
Calvin Coolidge’s Presidency
Important Maps
Europe in 1914
Europe in 1919
Review Questions
1. What caused WWI? (long-term and short-term causes)
2. What countries composed the Central Powers and Allied Powers? Why did the
powers divide this way?
3. What was the Schlieffen Plan? Why did it fail?
4. How did Americans feel about the war in the early years of the war?
5. Why did the United States enter the war?
6. How was WWI warfare characterized? What new weapons were introduced?
7. How did American fighting contribute to the end of the war?
8. In what ways did the government get more involved in the lives of America during
the war?
9. How were African Americans affected by the war?
10. How were immigrants to the United States affected by the war?
11. What issues were the Allied powers dealing with in the spring of 1919?
12. What did the Treaty of Versailles conclude?
13. What problems were left unsettled by the Treaty of Versailles?
14. Why did the U.S. Congress fail to join the League of Nations?
15. How did the Russian Revolution affect the United States during and after WWI?
16. What was the cause of the Palmer Raids? The result of the Palmer Raids?
17. What was the significance of the Sacco-Vanzetti Trial?
18. How did the KKK of the 1920s differ from the post-Civil War KKK?
19. What happened to labor during the 1920s? Why did this occur?
20. What trend did the tariffs implemented by politicians in the 1920s have? Why was
this so?
21. How did scandal lead to the downfall of Warren Harding?
22. How did the increased production of the automobile and the airplane change
American society in the 1920s?
23. Why did consumerism grow in the 1920s?
24. What were the major differences between urban and rural life in the 1920s?
25. What exactly did the 18th amendment prohibit? What did it allow?
26. What were the causes of prohibition? What effects did prohibition have on society?
27. What were the results of the Scopes Trial?
28. How did life for women change in the 1920s?
29. How did education change in the 1920s?
30. How did people receive news in the 1920s? How did that change life?
31. Who were the major sports stars of the 1920s? Why did sports players become
national stars for the first time in the 20s?
32. Why were the writers of the 1920s called “The Lost Generation”?
33. How did the NAACP and UNIA differ?
34. How did themes of art change in the 1920s?
35. How did music change in the 1920s?