1. Reminders April 4th – Matsuda DUE April 9th – Exam #2
U.S. Foreign Affairs, Progressivism, WWI, 1920s
Study guide online
April 25 – Moody DUE
May 9th – FINAL study group – 415-???
May 16th – 7-9pm (Great Depression to Current)

2. HIST HESEN
A New Era: The TWENTIES

3. “The War to End All Wars”
WWI ends November 11, 1918
Wilson’s Plans for Peace:
Fourteen Points
League of Nations
Irreconcilables
Reservationists

4. Wilson’s Plans for Peace
Treaty of Versailles
Big Four
U.S. (Wilson)
Great Britain (David Lloyd George)
France (Georges Clemenceau)
Italy (Vittorio Orlando)
NO RUSSIA!!!!

6. Postwar Problems Postwar Red Scare Strikes of 1919
A. Mitchell Palmer
“Palmer Raids”
Strikes of 1919
Boston Police Strike (MA)
Calvin Coolidge
Tulsa Race Riot (1921)
Dick Rowland

7. Return to Normalcy Republican Control Wilson dies
Republicans rule the 1920s
Warren G. Harding
“Normalcy”
Calvin Coolidge
Herbert Hoover
Focus is on business – “The business of American is business”

8. Warren G. Harding Won Election of 1920
Former newspaper editor from Ohio
Practiced patronage
“Ohio Gang”
Teapot Dome Scandal
Pardoned Eugene V. Debs

9. Domestic Policies Reduction of income tax
Established Bureau of the Budget
Centralized federal budget
Increase in tariff rates
Fordney-McCumber Tariff (1922)

10. Harding’s Death Harding administration was fraught with scandal
He was at the center of the problems
White House – promiscuity
Died unexpectedly in August 1923

11. Calvin Coolidge Becomes president after Harding dies Election of 1924
Calvin Coolidge (R)
John Davis (D)
Robert Lafollette (P)

12. Coolidge’s Vetoes and Inaction
Believed in limited government
Laissez-faire
Focused on the budget
Vetoed bills that offered bonuses to WWI vets
Vetoed McNary-Haugen Bill (1928) – refused to help farmers

13. Election of 1928 Coolidge declined to run for president again Tickets:
Herbert Hoover (R)
Alfred E. Smith (D)
Americans went with the Republicans because of PROSPERITY

14. Mixed Economic Development
Causes for prosperity
Increased productivity
Energy technologies
Government policies
Problems:
Labor
Open shop
Farmers

15. A New Culture Consumerism Gender Roles Religion
People bought goods….even if they didn’t need them
Gender Roles
Flappers
Religion
Revivalism – Aimee Semple McPherson

16. Cultures in Conflict Fundamentalism Prohibition John Scopes Trial
Evolution vs. Scripture
Prohibition
18th Amendment
Volstead Act
Sale, distribution, manufacture of “intoxicating liquors”

17. Cultures in Conflict Nativism/Xenophobia Ku Klux Klan Quota Law (1921)
Eastern Europeans and Asians
Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti
Ku Klux Klan
Political organization
Executions

18. War Debts and Reparations
War-guilt clause (1918)
Blame Germany for WWI
Owes $30 billion to Allied Powers (GB and France)
Dawes Plan (1924)
U.S. lends money to Germany to pay back Great Britain and France
Leads ultimately to the Great Depression

19. Foreign Policy Disarmament and Peace Washington Conference (1921)
Major powers agreed to dismantle Navy
Kellogg-Briand Pact
Countries should not use aggressive force to achieve national means