US Attitudes after WW1
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- Attitudes after WW1
- How did the experience change attitudes?
- Wanted isolationism
- 100,000 soldiers died
- War weariness
- US increasingly seen as a world power
- Conservative attitudes
- No more foreign entaglements
- Politics less dominated by big political personalities
- Less enthusiasm for gov. intervention
- Warren G. Harding
- Politics less dominated by big political personalities
- Less enthusiasm for gov. intervention
- Links to corruption
- Teapot Dome scandal
- Tarnished Harding's reputation
- Surrounded by corruption
- Details public after his death
- Surrounded by corruption
- Officials in Harding administration selling off oil exploration rights
- Land owned by federal gov.
- Knockdown prices
- To their cronies
- Tarnished Harding's reputation
- Teapot Dome scandal
- Elected 1920
- Amiable political "fixer"
- Democrats weakened
- Wilson unpopular
- LofN
- Warren G. Harding
- Links to corruption
- Teapot Dome scandal
- Tarnished Harding's reputation
- Surrounded by corruption
- Details public after his death
- Surrounded by corruption
- Officials in Harding administration selling off oil exploration rights
- Land owned by federal gov.
- Knockdown prices
- To their cronies
- Tarnished Harding's reputation
- Teapot Dome scandal
- Elected 1920
- Amiable political "fixer"
- Links to corruption
- Republican domination
- Attitudes changed
- Progressive ideas lost force
- Strongly conservative
- Pro-business
- Attitudes changed
- Wilson unpopular
- Democrats weakened
- Little success in the 1920s
- Divisions within the party
- West and South delegates
- Supported prohibition
- Little sympathy for those from big cities
- Largely Catholic
- Immigrants
- Hostile to prohibition
- West and South delegates
- Many progressives voted for La Follette
- Instead of Democrat candidate in 1924
- 1924 Democratic nomination
- Al Smith
- Governor of New York
- Skilful, experienced politician
- Divisive canditate
- Catholic
- Opposed prohibition (Wet)
- Did well in big cities
- Badly in South
- Usually Democratic stronghold
- Al Smith
- 1925 Scopes Trial
- High school teacher John Scopes
- Accused of violating Tennessee'se Butler Act
- Unlawful to teach evolution in state schools
- Publicity to town
- Big name lawyers
- William Jennings Bryan
- Clarence Darrow
- Famed defence attorney
- Big name lawyers
- Publicised fundamentalist-modernist controversey
- Theology contest
- Modern science taught in schools?
- How did the experience change attitudes?
- Why die keeping peace elsewhere?
- 100,000 soldiers died
- German immigrants resentfull of the ToV
- How did the experience change attitudes?
- Wanted isolationism
- War weariness
- US increasingly seen as a world power
- How did the experience change attitudes?
- Constitution
- No more foreign entaglements
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