UNIT 2: “MODERN AMERICA”
— 1920-1945

“CONSUMER CULTURE”

1920 CENSUS

PURCHASING POWER

SCIENTIFIC MANAGEMENT

“$5 DAY”

NEW MIDDLE CLASS

ADVERTISING the
AMERICAN DREAM

NEW WOMAN

CHAIN STORES

“ON TIME”

NEW NEGRO

“RURAL COUNTERATTACK”

RED SUMMER of 1919

“RETURN TO NORMALCY”

IMMIGRATION ACTS (1921/1924)

The FUNDAMENTALS (1911)

SCOPES (1925)

KU KLUX KLAN

MOSES “FLEETWOOD” WALKER

PLESSY v. FERGUSON (1896)

“JIM CROW”

RICHARD WRIGHT

AL JOLSON

The DYER BILL

“CRASH & DEPRESSION”

NEW LAISSEZ FAIRE

DAWES ACT (1922)

“EASY MONEY”

GREAT BULL MARKET

BLACK TUESDAY

“SICK” INDUSTRIES

HAWLEY-SMOOT TARIFF (1930)

SOUP KITCHENS, BREAD LINES,
& HOOVERVILLES

The RFC (1932)

BONUS ARMY (1932)

ELEC. of 1932

“FDR and the NEW DEALERS”

ELEC. of 1932

EBA 1ST
FERA & CCC }100
NRA & AAA Days

DUST BOWL

ANGRY VOICES

SSI 2ND
WAGNER ACT (NLRA) }100
WPA DAYS

ELEC. of 1936

ELEANOR ROOSEVELT

“MAKING DO”

ROOSEVELT RECESSION

“GOOD NEIGHBORS”

MONROE DOCTRINE (1823)

MCKINLEY TARIFF (1890)

VENEZUELA (1895)

The MAINE (15 FEB. 1898)

SPANISH-CUBAN-AMERICAN
-FILIPINO WAR (1898-1899)

OPEN DOOR (1899)

PLATT AMENDMENT (1901)

PANAMA CANAL (1903)

VENEZUELA (1903), DOM. REP.
& MANCHURIA (1905)

“DOLLAR DIPLOMACY” (1909)

MEXICO & HAITI (1916)

NICARAGUA (1912-1933)

CLARK MEMORANDU(1930)

NELSON ROCKEFELLER

“CIVILIANS at War”

NYE COMMITTEE (1935)

GREAT TERROR

HAKUICHU

NANJING (1937)

MUNICH (1938)

HUAC (1938)

7 DEC. 1941

LARD, RUBBER, & STAMPS

“ROSIE the RIVETER”

MANZANAR

FINAL SOLUTION

“The ATOMIC AGE”

MIDWAY (1942)

IWO JIMA & OKINAWA (1945)

LEO SZILARD & NEILS BOHR

ALBERT EINSTEIN & FDR

MANHATTAN ENGINEERING DIST.

ENRICO FERMI

J. ROBERT OPPENHEIMER

GEN. LESLIE R. GROVES

POTSDAM (8-16 JULY 1945)

TRINITY (15 JULY 1945)

HENRY STIMPSON

HIROSHIMA (6 AUG. 1945)

NAGASAKI (9 AUG 1945)

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