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Key Domestic Events in the 1920s and 1930s

Explore the significant events in the United States during the 1920s and 1930s, including Woodrow Wilson's 14 Points, the League of Nations, the Treaty of Versailles, the Bolshevik Revolution, the Red Scare, the Great Migration, the Ku Klux Klan, and more.

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Key Domestic Events in the 1920s and 1930s

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  1. Key Domestic Events in the 1920s and 1930s 2011-2012 USVA SOL Part IX

  2. Who was the 28th President

  3. Woodrow Wilson’s plan for peace at the close of World War I

  4. 14 Points

  5. What part of the plan was controversial to many Americans?

  6. The League of Nations

  7. What did those Americans who did not like the League of Nations not like about it?

  8. The potential of becoming entangled in foreign affairs and wars

  9. What is the term for wanting to pull away from world affairs?

  10. Isolationism

  11. Wilson’s 14 points were included in what treaty?

  12. The Treaty of Versailles

  13. What country was severely punished by the Treaty of Versailles?

  14. Germany

  15. Did the Senate ratify the treaty?

  16. No

  17. What country had exited World War I in 1917 due to a revolution?

  18. Russia

  19. What was the name of the revolution?

  20. The Bolshevik Revolution

  21. Who was the leader of the Revolution?

  22. Vladimir Lennin

  23. What political and economic philosophy did Lenin and the Bolsheviks ascribe to?

  24. Communism

  25. Communism is based on the theories developed by this individual

  26. Karl Marx

  27. In the United States, about 75,000 people joined the Communist Party. A fear of communism swept the nation.

  28. The Red Scare

  29. An agency in the Justice Department was set up to investigate, and if necessary, arrest the following groups: communists, socialists, and anarchists. What did this agency come to be known as?

  30. The agency later became the Federal Bureau of Investigation, or (F.B.I.)

  31. These two anarchists were perceived by the world of receiving prejudicial injustice. After a controversial trial and a series of appeals, the two Italian immigrants were executed.

  32. Sacco and Vanzetti

  33. This was the movement of thousands of African Americans from the South to cities of the North between 1910 and 1920.

  34. Great Migration

  35. Over 25 race riots took place during the-

  36. Red Summer of 1919

  37. This group was revived at the end of World War I. They turned against blacks, Jews, Roman Catholics, immigrants, and union leaders. They used violence to keep these groups “in their place.” They briefly gained political power in several states.

  38. Ku Klux Klan Limiting Immigration

  39. This set a limit on how many immigrants from each country could enter the United States every year.

  40. Quota System

  41. What presidential candidate promised a return towards “normalcy”

  42. Warren G. Harding

  43. What number president was he?

  44. 29th

  45. President Harding chose to take a hands off approach with government interference in business. What is this known as?

  46. Laissez-Faire Economics

  47. In 1921, President Harding invited the five major naval powers (the U.S., Great Britain, Japan, France, and Italy), to this conference, to urge that no more war ships be built for ten years and that many of their existing warships be scrapped.

  48. The Washington Naval Conference

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