AIM: WHAT WAS LIFE LIKE AFTER WORLD WAR I?

Do Now: Begin a new Subject titled “A Modern Nation” and a new note titled “post-WWI”

I Didn’t Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier

“I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier,I brought him up to be my pride and joy,Who dares to put a musket on his shoulder,To shoot some other mother’s darling boy?Let nations arbitrate their future troubles,It’s time to lay the sword and gun away,There’d be no war today,If mothers all would say,I didn’t raise my boy to be a soldier.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dQwEqhtGcW0&noredirect=1

True or FalseThe influenza epidemic of 1918 killed more people than died in World War I?

Influenza Epidemic of 1918

Influenza Epidemic of 1918

Influenza Epidemic of 1918

“I felt that when peace came we’d all be so joyful that nothing would weigh upon us again. I find, however, the problems of reconstruction loom so large that we are as much occupied with them as we have been with the problems of war.” -Illinois governor Frank Lowden, quoted in The Harding Era by Robert K. Murray Medical Crisis

Fear or Communism Limiting Immigration Labor Unrest

Read iBook Chapter 20, Section 1 and take notes

Fear of CommunismLimiting ImmigrationLabor Unrest

1.  Explain how the Red Scare, the Sacco and Vanzetti case, and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan reflected concerns held by many Americans.2.  Describe the primary goal of the immigration quota system established in 1921.

AIM: WHAT OCCURRED DURING THE REPUBLICAN ERA OF THE 1920’S? Do Now: Create a presidential campaign slogan from this speech:“America’s present need is not heroics, but healing; not nostrums [ineffective remedies], but normalcy;… not agitation, but adjustment; not surgery, but serenity; not the dramatic, but the dispassionate [calm]; not experiment, but equipoise [balance]; not submergence in internationality, but sustainment in triumphant nationality.” –Senator Warren G. Harding, speech in Boston, 1920

“Back to Normalcy” Harding’s 1920

campaign slogan Normalcy meant a

return to life as it was in prewar America

1.  What did Harding want to do to return America to “normalcy”?

2.  Summarize the Teapot Dome scandal.

Read iBook Chapter 20, Section 2

Harding Fiscal Policy Fiscal policy—approach to taxes and

government spending Committed to the free enterprise

system—private ownership of property, including land and resources; relies on competition for profits and the forces of supply and demand to determine what goods and services should be produced and at what price

Refused federal spending

The Teapot Dome Scandal A political scandal in which U.S.

secretary of the interior Albert Fall leased national oil reserves in Elk Hills, California, and Teapot Dome, Wyoming, to two companies that had bribed him

Calvin Coolidge Nicknamed “Silent Cal” Worked to cut taxes and eliminate

unnecessary spending

Herbert Hoover“We in America today are nearer to the final triumph over poverty than ever before in the history of any land. The poor=house is vanishing from among us. We have not yet reached the goal, but given a chance to go forward with the policies of the last eight years, we shall soon with the help of God be in sight of the day when poverty will be banished from his nation.” -Herbert Hoover, speech accepting the Republican nomination, 1928

Engaging the World in an Era of Isolationism

Congress wanted to avoid involvement in Europe

Promoting peace through disarmament Washington Naval Conference—a 1921

international conference, including representatives of Britain, France, Italy, and Japan and hosted by the United States to discuss naval disarmament and resulting in agreements to discuss power conflicts in the Pacific, to reduce or limit the size of each nation’s navy, to regulate submarine use, and to ban poison gas use

Engaging the World in an Era of Isolationism

Using diplomacy to outlaw war Kellogg-Briand Pact—an agreement made

among most nations of the world in 1928 to try to settle international disputes by peaceful means rather than war

Settling Europe’s war debts Dawes Plan—developed by banker Charles

Dawes, a plan for Germany to pay reparations after WWI by receiving loans from the US

Engaging the World in an Era of Isolationism

Reducing involvement in Latin America

The Republican Boom Years Under the economic polices of the

Republican presidents, the post-WWI recession faded away Businesses expanded Productivity increased Unemployment dropped

Big Business Get Even Bigger Consolidation—the merging of businesses

Get Rich Quick Florida Land Boom—real estate

developers sold worthless lots of land along Florida coast to speculators (people who take the risk of buying something in the hope of reselling it for a higher price)

Ponzi Scheme Investing in stock

Dow Jones Industrial Average—a commonly used daily measure of stock prices

Aim: What was life like during the roaring twenties?

Do Now: What do you think was the

biggest challenge facing the United States after WWI (radicals, labor unrest, or immigration), and why?

The Roaring Twenties Baseball—Babe Ruth, The Negro League American Music—Jazz Astronomers/Space Pioneers Flight—Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart President Warren G. Harding President Calvin Coolidge Modern Women—Flappers Prohibition—18th Amendment, Bootleggers,

Speakeasies Harlem Renaissance—Literature, Performing

Arts, Fine Arts Mass Entertainment—Radio, Movies Arts of the 1920’s

Generations Clash The Youth Perspective—The old ways are

repressive The Adult Perspective—Young people

have lost their way

Generations Clash The “Dry” Perspective—Prohibition

Improves Society The ”Wet” Perspective—Prohibition

restricts freedom and breeds crime

Generations Clash The Modernist Perspective—Science

shows how nature works The Traditionalist Perspective—The bible

is the word of God