American Legion |
World War 1 veterans group that promoted patriotism and economic benefits for former servicemen |
Five Power Naval Treaty |
Agreement that reduced naval strength and established a ratio of warships among the major shipping powers |
Dawes Plan |
Rescheduling German reparations payments that only temporarily relieved national debt |
Hawley-Smoot Bill |
Tariff bill of 1930 that deepened the depression and caused international financial chaos |
RFC |
Hoover-sponsored federal agency that provided loans to banks and businesses after 1932 |
Bonus army |
Encampment of unemployed veterans who were driven out of Washington by General Douglas MacArthur’s forces in 1932 |
Manchuria |
Chinese province raided and overrun by Japanese in 1932 |
Volstead Act |
The Act specified that "no person shall manufacture, sell, barter, transport, import, export, deliver, furnish or possess any intoxicating liquor except as authorized by this act." It did not specifically prohibit the purchase or use of intoxicating liquors |
Butler Act |
Law in Tennessee that prohibited the teaching of evolution in public schools |
Kellogg-Briand Pact |
Toothless anti-war pact |
Red Scare |
Communist/foreigner bias |
Immigration Act of 1930 |
Only northern and western Europeans |
History – the 1920’s
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