UNITED STATES HISTORY II
LECTURE OUTLINE FOUR
- PREWAR FOREIGN POLICY
- review of Open Door--ideals and self-interest
- U.S. and postwar Cuba (1902 Platt Amendment)
- TR and the Panama Canal
- Roosevelt Corollary
- Taft and "Dollar Diplomacy"
- Wilson and Mexico
- THE ROAD TO WORLD WAR I
- U.S. participation would be partly shaped by progressivism
- neutrality--and ideal that coincided with self-interest
- factors that impeded neutrality--including Wilsonianism
- U.S. neutrality and the British
- U.S. neutrality and German submarine warfare
- sinking of the Lusitania (May 7, 1915)
- unrestricted submarine warfare (January 1, 1917)
- Zimmermann Telegram
- America enters the war as a result of a vision of a new world order and in reaction to submarine warfare
- WOODROW WILSON AND THE FOURTEEN POINTS
- the Fourteen Points symbolized Wilson's vision of a new world order and Americna self-interest
- THE DOMESTIC FRONT DURING WORLD WAR I
- government and business--War Industries Board
- government and labor--War Labor Board
- the wartime push for domestic unity
- WOODROW WILSON AT VERSAILLES
- obstacles to the implementation of the Fourteen Points
- how successful was Wilson in implementing the Fourteen Points?
- The fight over the Versailles Peace Treaty
- "Irreconcilables"
- Senator Lodge and the debate over Article X in the League Covenant
- DOMESTIC "WARFARE" AFTER WORLD WAR I
- race relations
- labor strife
- Red Scare and the Palmer Raids
- THE TWENTIES
- Three questions about "prosperity" and the mass national culture
- Did all Americans participate in this "prosperity"?
- Did the federal government show too much favoritism toward business and the wealthy?
- Did certain Americans erect "lines of defense" against the mass national culture?
- 1922 Fordney-McCumber Tariff
- Labor in the 1920s--"welfare capitalism"
- Overview of the American economy
- inflation, recession, and recovery
- agriculture and McNary Haugenism
- Secretary Mellon and taxation
- reparations and the Allied debt
- debt and the Dawes Plan
- REPUBLICAN ASCENDANCY IN THE 1920s
- The election of 1920
- Warren G. Harding and a "Return to Normalcy"
- Harding's Administration
- Secretary Herbert Hoover and "associationalism" (government/business cooperation)
- Teapot Dome
- "Silent Cal" and the election of 1924
- DEVELOPMENT OF A MASS NATIONAL CULTURE
- its features, shared values, and expectations
- "Lines of Defense" against the mass national culture
- "newer" Americans
- urban/rural tensions
- immigration restriction and the 1924 National Origins Act
- revival of the Ku Klux Klan
- Modernists vs. Fundamentalists--the Scopes Trial
- Prohibition
- THE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION OF 1928
- new types of candidates
- the election as symptomatic of the nation's contrasts
- the beginnings of a national political realignment