In January 1917, President Woodrow Wilson in a speech before Congress
Suggested the creation of the League of Nations in the postwar period
President Wilson's request to Congress for a Declaration of War
Took place two weeks after German submarines had torpedoed three American ships
The sabotage act and sedition act of 1918
Made illegal any public expression opposing the war
Regarding the Treaty of Versailles the US senate decided in 1919 to
Not ratify it
Throughout the 1920's the perfomance of the US economy
Saw nearly uninterrupted prosperity coupled with severe inequalities
During the 1920s wages for American workers
Generally ran well below the growth of the economy as a whole
In the 1920's artists and intellectuals of the Harlem Renaissance
Drew from their African heritage
In his 1925 novel the Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
Criticized the American obsession with material wealth
After 1929, in the face of the worsening gloabal economic crisis, the US
Refused to alter the payment schedule of debts owed by European nations to America
As a result of the Great Depression, social values in the US
Seemed to change relatively little
As Herber Hoover began his presidency he
Considered the country's economic future bright
The Agricultural Adjustment Act 1933
Sought to raise crop prices by paying famers not to plant
The Civilian Conservation Corps
Put the unemployed to work on rural and wilderness areas
The "Second New Deal" was launched in response to the
Persistence of the Great Depression
In the 1930's the New Deal generally gave
Cash assistance to both men and women
The Washington Conference of 1921
Attempted to prevent a global naval arms race
In 1930 President Franklin Roosevelt's "Quarantine Speech
Received a decidedly hostile response by the American people
In 1940 the "lend-lease" plan
Allowed the US to loan weapons to England, to be returned when the war was over
In 1941, the Atlantic Charter
Saw the US and England claim to share common principles
During WWII, the Fair Employment Practices Commission was created
By President Roosevelt to stop black protestors from marching on the capital
Compared with women who worked ouside the home before 1930, the new working women of WWII were more likely to be
Engaged in heavy industrial work
In the case of Korematsu vs. US the Supreme Court ruled that
The internment of Japanese Americans was constitutional
In the years immediately following WWII, the US policy toward Asia led
The Truman administration to encourage the rapid economic growth of Japan
In 1948, President Harry Truman responded to the Soviet blockade of West Berlin by
Airlifting supplies to West Berlin
The Taft-Hartley Act of 1947
Permitted the "union shop