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Woodrow Wilson
The League of Nations was based on the principles of international cooperation, arbitration of disputes and collective security. The Covenant of the League of Nations (the first 26 articles of the Treaty of Versailles) was drafted in the first sessions of the Conference of Paris on the initiative of the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson. -
Economic Boom
At the end of the First World War, America was in a good position as the war had not directly damaged the society and the demand for their goods had increased causing a hasty rise in the industry. The reason for the economic boom was because of factors such as the motor manufacturing industry, easy credit, policies of the republican presidents and confidence. -
Motor industry
The greatest business boom took place in the motor car industry. There were three big car producers in the 1920s: Ford, Chrysler and General Motors. By far the biggest at this time was the Henry Ford Motor Company.
The car industry helped to make America richer in the 1920s. Car production used up 20% of America's steel, 80% of her rubber, 75% of her plate glass, and 65% of her leather. The more cars that were made, the more jobs that there were created in these industries. -
Prohibition in the United States
Prohibition in the United States was a national ban on the sale, production, and transportation of alcohol, from 1920 to 1933. The dry movement was led by rural Protestants in both political parties, and was coordinated by the Anti-Saloon League.
The Volstead Act set down the rules for enforcing the ban and defined the types of alcoholic beverages that were prohibited. Private ownership and consumption of alcohol was not made illegal. -
Warren G. Harding
His presidential administration(1921-1923) was characterized by giving greater freedom to private capital, minimizing the interference of the federal State in Economic Affairs (high rates, low taxes for large private companies, deregulation of all federal agency charged with "restrict" the free market, constraints on the use of power executive in the Social Affairs...), and the isolationism of the United States in the world and european policy. -
Washington Conference
The Washington Conference of 1921 was one of the many produced during the interwar period in order to try a disarmament of the powers, so that he should not return to produce another world war.There was'nt an agreement, but there was agreement on the tonnage of ships. To United States and United Kingdom was established that each state could have 525,000 tons of displacement. -
Ku Klux Klan
In the 1920s, the Klan moved in many states to dominate local and state politics. The Klan devised a strategy called the "decade," in which every member of the Klan was responsible for recruiting ten people to vote for Klan candidates in elections. In 1924 the Klan succeeded in engineering the elections of officials from coast to coast, including the mayors of Portland, Maine, and Portland, Oregon. -
Immigration Aact
The Immigration Act, was a United States federal law that limited the annual number of immigrants who could be admitted from any country to 2% of the number of people from that country who were already living in the United States in 1890, down from the 3% cap set by the Immigration Restriction Act of 1921, according to the Census of 1890. -
Hoover and the Depression
The very first thing Hoover did in response to the 1929 crash was call business leaders to Washington to pressure them into keeping wages high, instead of cutting wages as economic conditions required. This was the cause of about 2/3 of the unemployment in the first years of the Great Depression. -
Great Depression
The Great Depression began in August of 1929, when the United States economy first went into an economic recession. it was not until the Wall Street Crash of October, 1929 that the effects of a declining economy were felt, and a major worldwide economic downturn ensued. The market crash marked the beginning of a decade of high unemployment, poverty, low profits, deflation, plunging farm incomes, and lost opportunities for economic growth and personal advancement. -
Wall Street
It was the more devastating fall of the stock market in the history of the stock market in the United States, it can be named: Black Thursday, Black Monday and Black Tuesday. All of them are correct, due to that the crash wasn't only one day. The initial fall occurred in the Black Thursday, but the catastrophic deterioration of Black Monday and black Tuesday which precipitated the spread of panic and the beginning of unprecedented consequences and long term for the United States. -
Hoover failed the elections
1500 army veterans had gathered in Washington to demand extra bonus payments not due until 1945. Two protesters were killed by police, and 63 injured in army action to clear their encampments. The democrats swept to power with Franklin Delano Roosevelt gaining 22 votes and Hoover 15 -
Rosevelt won the elections
Franklin Delano Roosevelt had 3 main aims:
-Relief: to help to improve the lives of people.
-Recovery: to begin to rebuild US industry and trade.
-Reform: to change conditions to ensure future progress. -
New Deal
New Deal is the name given by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to its interventionist policy launched to combat the effects of the great depression in the United States. This program was developed between 1933 and 1938 in order to sustain poorer population layers, reforming financial markets and stimulate a US economy wounded from the crash of 29 by unemployment and bankruptcies in chain. -
Tennessee Valley Authority Act
The TVA is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter to provide navigation, flood control, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley.
TVA was envisioned not only as a provider, but also as a regional economic development agency that would use federal experts and electricity to rapidly modernize the region's economy and society. -
Prohibition in the United States
Prohibition ended with the ratification of the Twenty-first Amendment, which repealed the Eighteenth Amendment, on 1933.
The federal Government spent huge amounts of money trying to force obedience to the prohibition, but the corruption of local authorities and the rejection of the masses the prohibition made more unpopular to sustain the Volstead Act. -
Second New Deal
The Second New Deal was a continuation and expansion of the original New Deal program. The Second New Deal went much further in terms of direct government involvement and aid. Some of those programs are still in action, such as the Social Security Act and the Federal Housing Authority. -
Wagner Act
It is a United States federal law issued in July 1935 to limit the reactions of employers against workers who field unions, collectively offer their services, join strikes... This law was not applicable to workers joined to special regimes: workmen of railroad, agricultural workers, domestic workers, workers or independent contractors of the federal or State Government, having these rules. -
Social Security Act
The act established a system of social protection at federal level: retirement for the people of 65 years, insurance against unemployment and various disabled, but illnesses and invalidity were uncovered. The blind and disabled children received aid financed by federal grants awarded in the States.
The Social Security Act caused controversy in the United States, conservatives were accused of promoting an injustice in public money, because people who had worked for few years could obtain pensions -
USA and the World War II
The Second World War finally solved the unemployment problem: the Americans sold millions of dollars worth of industrial products to the British who needed them to fight the Germans: jobs for millions of Americans.The demand for military equipment and recruitment for the armed forces meant that the unemployment problem was quickly resolved.
