history chapter 8

Great Britain, US, France, Italy, Japan (greatest navy to smallest navy)

gets elected on "return to normalcy", ohio gang started by him, arms control

15 countries agreed to denounce war as a national policy (Really weak, no way to enforce)

Coolidge and Hoover

Charles R Forbes, Colonel Thomas W. Miller, Albert B Fall

head of veterans bureau, he gets caught illegally selling government supplies to private businesses

head of office of alien property, gets caught taking bribes

secretary of the interior (incharge of all federal lands like parks), gets caught in teapot dome scandal (in teapot doming wyoming is where there was oil reserve, sells oil to private business)

He wants to stop communism from spreading to our country The fbi conducts what are called "palmer raids" they go into people's homes and arrest them Thousands of people get deported out of country

Secretary of State under Harding, Proposed a 10-year moratorium on the construction of major new warships at the Washington Conference

professor of anthropology who works at museum of natural history and spreads racist ideas

System instituted by government Discriminates against people from southern or eastern europe Catholic and jewish people People from japan

KKK

Got US bankers to loan money to germany so they can pay back GB and france France and GB uses money to pay US back

Gertrude ederle (First woman to swim across english channel, Was 19, 21 miles) Babe ruth (Most famous baseball player) Andrew "rube" foster (Famous negro league baseball player, Founded the league) Helen wills (Dominant female tennis player) Lou gehrig (Suffered from ALS) Red grange (most dominant college football player)

brings people together

"airwaves" "radio audience" "tune in"

She opens first birth control clinic American Birth Control League Church is against this

Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion, beliefs and religion over science

Billy sunday and aimee semple McPherson

Group of american writers that are hating american culture so they moved to europe (Ernest hemmingway and John Dos Passos)

Sinclair Lewis: "babbitt", F Scott fitzgerald coins term "jazz age", Dorthy Parker part of "round table", Edith wharton "age of innocence", Willia cather "My antonia" Edna st vincent millay Gertrude Stein described "lost generation"

Harlem becomes capital of black America Attracted artists from all around world Writers expressed pride in their heritage Wrote about trials of being black in a white world

Scopes trial clarence darrow and william jennings bryan Darrow is most famous lawyer in US (hired to defend scopes) Bryan was famous prosecutor (scopes lost but it opened eyes)

Conservative moral values Close social relationships Well to do families, set communities social standards Church defines morals, parents back it up Thrifty, respectful middle class practicing moderation

Drinking and gambling Casual dating Foreigners Competition Arguing about current events Judged on accomplishments and not background

Volstead act (Created prohibition department, Not well funded, Leads to lawlessness and organized crime) Mafia is bringing in alcohol Bootleggers (sneak in alcohol) Speakeasies (are hidden clubs and bars)

18th amendment

21st amendment

from mostly protestant rural south and west (not immigrants, not veterans)

"Jazz singer" starring al jolson 1927

1928 "steamboat willie" Starring micky mouse

KDKA in pittsburgh

Route 66