1919-1941

EVENTS - Wall Street Crash - WW2 - Red Scare - Prohibition - Great Depression - Dust Bowl - 1st and 2nd New Deal - May Day Riots - Palmer Raids - Scopes Trial

PEOPLE - Franklin D Roosevelt - Woodrow Wilson - Calvin Coolidge - Herbert Hoover - Harry S Truman - Mitchell Palmer - Al Capone - Warren G Harding - Frank Lloyd Wright

EVENTS
Wallstreet Crash 1929- Felecia Great Depression
 * After WWI there was a great economic boom
 * from 1920 to 1929 __stocks__ quadrupled in value
 * then in 1929 stocks started to crash and their value went down about 80%
 * There was chaos in the banking system because the banks tried to collect __loans__ made to stockmarket investors whose holdings were worth little or nothing at all.
 * After people realized that the banks had huge uncollectable loans, people rushed to withdraw their money
 * after that banks started failing by the hundreds.
 * Business could not get __credit__ for inventory and checks couldn't be used without being questioned.
 * cause of the Great Depression
 * Longest and most severe economic downturn in history.
 * Began with the stock market crashing in 1929
 * Lasted until US involvement in World War II
 * Unemployment skyrocketed almost one third of the population was unemployed
 * Commercial banks fell
 * Crop prices fell fifty percent
 * So much food was produced but the production was unprofitable

WW2 1st and 2nd New Deal: Prohibition
 * Most wide spread war in history
 * Germany invaded Poland without warning on Sep. 1, 1939, sparking the start of the 2nd world war
 * Total death count being at 62 million people. Average of 25,000 died daily
 * Ended Sep. 2, 1945
 * Economic programs initiated after the Great Depression by Franklin Roosevelt
 * Focused on the 3 R's; Relief, Recovery, and Reform
 * Relief for the unemployed and impoverished, Recovery of the economy to normalcy, and Reform of the financial system to prevent another depression from happening
 * The 1st New Deal dealt with diverse groups, from banking and farming, to business and industry
 * The 2nd New Deal promoted labor unions, The Works Progress Administration, Social Security Act, and also provided aid to migrant workers and tenant farmers
 * Anti-alcohol movement
 * Speakeasies
 * Bootleggers
 * Lead by Anti-Saloon and Women's Christian Temperance Union
 * 18th Amendment

Dust Bowl
 * Agricultural devastation that help to lengthen the depression[[image:jthgroup11/AAAA4.jpg align="right"]]
 * Farmerscouldn't grow food or pay off their debt and many lost their farms
 * By 1934 it was estimated that 100 million acres of farm land had lost all or most of its top soil
 * 14 dust storms recorded in 1932 and 38 recorded in1933
 * Primary area of impact was the Southern plains

The Red Scare:
 * Followed The Bolshevik Revolution
 * A nation-wide hysteria provoked by the fear and anxiety of a Revolution taking place in America that would ultimately change the American way of life forever
 * About worker socialist revolutions, and political radicalism

Scopes Trial
 * John Scopes a teacher in Dayton Tenn.
 * Put on trial in 1925 for teaching evolution
 * Symbolized the conflict between science and religion

Palmer Raids- Felecia May Day Riots- Felecia
 * A. Mitchell Palmer claimed that Communist agents from Russia planned to overthrow the American government.
 * On the 7th of November, 1919, over 10,000 suspected communists and anarchists were arrested.
 * On the 2nd of January, 1920, another 6000 were arrested and held without trial.
 * These raids took place in several cities and became known as the Palmer Raids.
 * involved socialists, trade union members, police, and military troops.
 * socialists and trade union members participated in a May Day parade to protest the recent jailing of Socialist leader Eugene Debs.
 * They all had red flags, and some had red badges, and wore red clothes
 * While marching to public square one of the units was stopped by a group of Victory Loan Workers who asked that their red flags be lowered.
 * That is when the fighting started.
 * 2 people were killed, 40 were injured, and 116 were arrested
 * mounted police, army trucks, and tanks were needed to restore order

PEOPLE
Franklin D. Roosevelt
 * 32nd president
 * New Deal policy
 * Had polio
 * President during great Depression and WWII
 * Expanded the federal government through programs and reforms

Harry S. Truman- Felecia Warren G Harding
 * made some of the most crucial decisions in history.
 * ordered atomic bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
 * Japanese surrender quickly followed
 * 21 point program
 * Truman Doctrine
 * Marshall Plan
 * North Atlantic Treaty Organization
 * Teapot Dome Scandal
 * Officially entered League of Nations
 * World War one was ended

Calvin Coolidge
 * 30th presdent of the United States
 * vice president to Warren G. Harding
 * took over whe Harding died
 * continue many of Hardings programs and plans
 * Coolidge died in 1923

Woodrow Wilson- Felecia
 * Underwood Act
 * Fedral Reserve Act
 * Federal Trade Commission
 * 1916-prohibited child labor, and limited railroad workers to an eight hour work day.
 * "He kept us out of war."
 * After second election he realized America couldn't remain neutral in World War and he asked Congress for a decalration of war on Germany.
 * Fourteen Points

Herbert Hoover Mitchell Palmer
 * 31st President from 1929-1933 Republican
 * President during the Great Depression
 * Was originally a mining engineer, with no prior political experience
 * Deeply believed in the Efficiency Movement which thought that the US government was riddled with inefficiency, corruption, and wast
 * Attorney General to the US from 1919-1921
 * Democratic Congressamn
 * Palmer Raids: actions of the US department of Justice to arrest and deport foreign radicals, and anarchists

Al Capone
 * Head of major Chicago bootleg ring
 * Americas best known gangster
 * most notorious killing was the st. valentines day massacre
 * was never arrested on chargesof murderor any other things dealing with his business
 * finally arrested for income tax evasion
 * died Jan. 25, 1947

Franklin Lloyd Wright
 * 1867-1959
 * American Architect, Interior Designer, Writer and Educator
 * Designed over 1000 structures, and completed over 500
 * Created structured that were in harmony with humanity and its environment; a philosophy called Organic Architecture


 * Citations:**

http://www.history.com/topics/red-scare http://www.biography.com/people/groups/political-office