Unit 5: Early 20th Century
WW I ~ Roaring 20s ~ Great Depression ~ WWII
OVERVIEW OF THE TIME SPAN: The first half of the 20th century brought many changes for the
United States. The start of World War I turned the attention of the nation from Progressivism to
foreign affairs. After the war, the following twenty years were characterized by economic boom
and bust. The 1920’s are typically referred to as the “Roaring 20’s,” and the “Jazz Age,” and the
“Golden 20’s.” But beneath the seeming prosperity lay turmoil in American society. The seeds
for the economic depression that would plague the nation throughout the 1930’s were planted
during the decade of the 1920’s. The decade of the 1920’s was owned politically by Republicans
– isolationists in foreign policy, pro big business growth in economic affairs. It was a decade of
clashing ideals: fundamentalism vs. modernism, cultural and social conflicts: a period of
disillusionment. The 1930’s were characterized by the worst depression in American history.
The political arena fell under control of liberal Democrats led by the New Deal policies of
Franklin D. Roosevelt. As the 1930’s neared the end of the decade, Europe fell into a second
world war, and the US kept a wary eye out as we attempted to maintain a neutral stance.
SOURCES:
The American Pageant: chapters 30-35
QUIZ DATES (subject to change)
Chapter 30/31: Tuesday, February 24
Chapter 32/33: Tuesday, March 3
Chapter 34/35: Tuesday, March 10
EXAM DATES
Unit 5 IDs (part 1): Friday, February 27
Unit 5 IDs (part 2): Friday, March 13
Unit 5 Multiple Choice: Tuesday, March 17
Unit 5 Essay (DBQ): Wednesday, March 18
Unit 5 IDs
Part One
Woodrow Wilson
Treaty Of Versailles
Volstead Act
Lusitania
Zimmerman Note
"Birth of a Nation"
Sussex Pledge
Irreconcilables/Reservationists
Andrew Mellon
14 Points
Mitchell Palmer
Margaret Sanger
League of Nations
John T. Scopes
Warren G. Harding
George Creel
Clarence Darrow
Herbert Hoover
Espionage and Sedition
William Jennings Bryan
Calvin Coolidge
Acts
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Washington Conference
War Industries Board
Ernest Hemingway
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Henry Cabot Lodge
Sinclair Lewis
Fordney-McCumber Tariff
Food Administration
Sacco and Vanzetti Case
Law
The Big Four
Emergency Quota Act 1921
Teapot Dome
Normalcy
Immigration Quota Act 1924
Part Two
Dawes Plan
Wagner Act
Appeasement
Hawley-Smoot Tariff
National Labor Relation Board
Good Neighbor Policy
Reconstruction Finance
Congress of Industrial
Reciprocal Trade
Corporation
Organizations
Agreements 1934
Bonus Army
Twentieth Amendment
Panay Incident
Harry Hopkins
Twenty-first Amendment
Atlantic Charter
Father Coughlin
Court-packing scheme (FDR)
Lend Lease
Huey Long
Neutrality Acts 1935, 1936,
Munich Conference
Francis Townshend
1937
Douglas MacArthur
Keynesian Economics
Cash and Carry
Battle of Midway
Glass-Steagall Act
Selective Service Act
Social Security Act of 1935