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1920s Unit Day 1

The Roaring Twenties was a period of postwar problems and isolationism in the United States. President Harding called for a return to normalcy after World War I by healing the nation rather than enacting radical change. The country faced issues like closed war industries, huge surpluses, and the Red Scare. The United States also passed the National Origins Act to restrict immigration through racial quotas and maintained an isolationist foreign policy focused on peace efforts and stabilizing the global economy.

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1920s Unit Day 1

The Roaring Twenties was a period of postwar problems and isolationism in the United States. President Harding called for a return to normalcy after World War I by healing the nation rather than enacting radical change. The country faced issues like closed war industries, huge surpluses, and the Red Scare. The United States also passed the National Origins Act to restrict immigration through racial quotas and maintained an isolationist foreign policy focused on peace efforts and stabilizing the global economy.

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THE ROARING TWENTIES (1920-1929)

RETURN TO NORMALCY
Americas present need is not heroics, but healing; not
nostrums, but normalcy; not revolution, but restoration.
President Warren G. Harding

POSTWAR PROBLEMS
War industries closed
Huge surpluses
Red Scare

SACCO-VANZETTI CASE
Two Italians charged with murder
Eventually executed
Supposedly only because they were Italian

NATIONAL ORIGINS ACT


Set quotas to restrict
immigration
2% of what already
was in the US

WORLD RELATIONS
Isolationism
Two Foreign Policy Tasks
1.) maintain world peace
2.) stabilize world economy

PEACE EFFORTS
Washington Naval Conference
Japan & Britain strengthening navies
5 : 5 : 3 : 1.75 : 1.75 (tons)
Flaws:
Battleships only
Japan unsatisfied

PEACE EFFORTS
Kellogg-Briand Pact (Paris, 1928)
Made war illegal
Helped US isolationism
Flaw
Enforcement

PEACE EFFORTS
Monroe Doctrine
US as police force
Softened under
Coolidge

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