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| Assassinated Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
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| Archduke Francis Ferdinand |
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| held the Austro-Hungarian throne, his assassination sparked events that helped cause World War I |
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| extremely high ranked general officer in the United States army. Was regarded as a mentor of a generation of American generals who led United States army in Europe during World War II |
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| Edward M. House and Robert Lansing |
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| one of the most influential members of President Wilson's circle, William J Bryan was the secretary of state didn't want to risk war over the issue and resigned in protest and his successor Robert Lansing signed the note |
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| was the Democratic Party nominee for President of the United States in 1896, 1900 and 1908, a lawyer, and the 41st United States Secretary of State under President Woodrow Wilson. |
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| passanger liner that was torpedoed by a German U-boat |
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| the German precursor to submarines |
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| a speech delivered by President Woodrow Wilson, very idealistic |
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| one of the peace treaties that helped end World War I |
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| was marked by a widespread fear of anarchism, as well as the effects of radical political agitation in American society. Fueled by anarchist bombings and spurred on by Attorney General Alexander Mitchell Palmer, it was characterized by illegal search and seizures, unwarranted arrests and detentions, and deportation of hundreds of suspected communists and anarchists. |
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| emerged in the 1920s as an especially American expression of the modernist spirit. African American artists bent musical conventions to give fuller rein to improvisation and sensuality |
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| The Man Nobody Knows (1925) |
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| is the second book by the American author and advertising executive Bruce Fairchild Barton. Barton presents Jesus as "the founder of modern business," in an effort to make the Christian story accessible to businessmen of the time |
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| president roosevelt and congress adopted bold measures to relieve human suffering, restore confidence, and promote economic recovery |
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| favors the interests of certain established inhabitants of an area or nation as compared to claims of newcomers or immigrants.[1] It may also include the re-establishment or perpetuation of such individuals or their culture. Nativism typically means opposition to immigration or efforts to lower the political or legal status of specific ethnic or cultural groups because the groups are considered hostile or alien to the natural culture, and it is assumed that they cannot be assimilated. |
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| modeled on the vigillent group formed in the south after Civil War, devoted to 100% Americanism restricted to native born white protestants. |
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| "A return to normalcy" (i.e. a return to the way of life before World War I) was United States presidential candidate Warren Harding’s campaign promise in the election of 1920. Although detractors believed that the word was a neologism as well as a malapropism coined by Harding (as opposed to the more accepted term normality), there was contemporary discussion and evidence found that normalcy had been listed in dictionaries as far back as 1857. |
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| The Washington Naval Treaty, also known as the Five-Power Treaty, limited the naval armaments of its five signatories: the United States of America, the British Empire, the Empire of Japan, the French Third Republic, and the Kingdom of Italy. The treaty was agreed at the Washington Naval Conference, which was held in Washington, D.C. from November 1921 to February 1922, and was signed by representatives of the treaty nations on 6 February 1922. It was an attempt to prevent a naval arms race that began after World War I. the treaty limited the total capital ship tonnage of each of the signatories to the values tabulated at right. In addition, no single ship could exceed 35,000 tons (35,560 t),[1] and no ship could carry a gun in excess of 16 inches (406 mm). |
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| a treaty signed by the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan at the Washington Naval Conference on 13 December 1921. It was partly a follow-on to the Lansing-Ishii Treaty, signed between the U.S. and Japan. The main result of the Four-Power Treaty was the termination of the Anglo-Japanese Alliance of 1902. The Four-Power Treaty was also an attempt at preventing future wars so that the United States could continue its isolationist-oriented direction of foreign policy, which it held until the beginning of World War II in Europe (1939). |
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| was a treaty affirming the sovereignty and territorial integrity of China as per the Open Door Policy, signed by all of the attendees to the Washington Naval Conference on 6 February 1922. |
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| Business Associationalism |
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| an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry, creates standardization |
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| Agricultural Marketing Act (1929) |
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| established both a federal farm board with a revolving loan fund of 500 million dollars to help farm cooperatives market commodities, and a program enabling the farm board to set up "stabilization corporations" empowered to buy surpluses |
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| Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act(1930) |
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| raised US tariffs on over 20,000 imported goods |
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| Franklin Delano Roosevelt |
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| won his first of four presidential elections when the United States was in the depths of the Great Depression, was credited for keeping the country's economic crisis from becoming a political crisis |
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