TOPIC/ KEY POLITICAL DEVELOPMENTS KEY SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTS KEY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENTS KEY FOREIGN POLICY KEY CIVIL RIGHTS
PERIOD EVENTS DEVELOPMENTS
FOREIGN • Monroe Doctrine (1823 onwards) • Manifest Destiny and Westward • Benefitted from taking over trade • Broadly isolationist • 1865 - Emancipation
POLICY • Wilson’s 14 Point Plan Expansion links during WW1 • Fear of Communist revolution • Segregation in army
1865-1900 • League of Nations failed to go through • Immigration from Europe and Asia • NY Stock Exchange 2nd in world by from 1917 (US Communist troops
• Neutrality until 1917 (late 1800s, early 1900s) 1890 party established 1919)
• Return to Normalcy after WW1 • 1899 - Open Door Policy with China • Loans to allies during WW1 • 1898 - Annexation of Hawaii
• Pan American Conference 1881 and • Immigration increase due to WW1 • 1882 - Naval Expansion • 1903 - Panama Canal (given
Union 1889 • 1867 - Burlingame Treaty with China rights to build canal as part of
(promoted trade and movement of supporting Panama’s
people) interdependence)
1920s • Republican dominance • Flapper movement • WW1 boosted economy • Broadly isolationist (eg no • Harlem Renaissance
• 1917 - Literacy Act • Industrial North vs Agricultural South • Pro-business Gov League of Nations) • NAACP
• Increase in federal intervention • Anti-social reforms - Mellon Plan - • Stock market boom - early 1920s • National Origin Act limited • 1920 - 19th
• Congress largely laissez-faire Raised tariffs • Low taxes contributed to boom immigration from parts of Asia Amendment (votes for
• Wilson - Return to Normalcy • Prohibition = bootleggers and • Ford Motor Co. contributed to boom and Europe women)
• National Origin Act speakeasies • 1929 - Wall Street Crash • Tariffs slowed international • KKK resurgence and
• Hoover - Rugged Individualism • Consumerism trade increase in presence of
• 18th Amendment (1919) Prohibition • Europe didn’t repay debts WASPs
• 1917 Literacy Act
DEPRESSI • 1929 - Agricultural Marketing Act • 1932 - Unemployment relief from • Reconstruction finance corporation • 1931 - Moratorium on war • Works Progress
ON AND • 1930 - Hawley-Smoot Tariff Gov • 1933 -Emergency Banking Relief Act debts Administration (1935)
THE NEW • 1932 - Federal Home Loan Act • Veterans Administrations and Bonus • 1933 - Glass-Steagall Act • Mexican migrants didn’t was ‘colour-blind’
DEAL • Roosevelt - intro of New Deal (1932) Army • Regulation of Stock Exchange benefit from the New Deal • Increase in lynchings
1st NEW • 100 days = increased federal • 1933 - Tennessee Valley Authority • Gov salaries cut 25% for spending • Constitution of the
DEAL intervention • 1933 - Public Works Administration on ‘Alphabet Agencies’ during the Congress of Industrial
2nd NEW • Democratic hegemony • National Recovery Admin 100 days Organisations
DEAL • Federal Emergency Relief Act • 1935 - Social Securities Act prohibited racial
discrimination
FOREIGN • 1921 - Washington Conference • Immigration limited due to National • Tariffs in 1920 slowed international • Monroe Doctrine and Policy of • 1942 - Double V
POLICY • 1921 - Four Powers Treaty Origin Act trade Containment Campaign (victory at
1920-1945 • Return to Normalcy (early 1920s) • 1921 - Open Door Policy with China • Europe didn’t repay WW1 debts • Broadly isolationist home and victory
• 1936-1939 - Neutrality Acts 1-5 • 1941 - Pearl Harbour • 1931 - Moratorium on War Debts • 1928 - Kellog-Brand Pact abroad)
• 1924 - Dawes and Young Plans • 1924-29 US involvement in
• 1941 - Lend Lease Latin America doubled
• Good Neighbour Policy
WORD • 1939 - Neutrality Act 5 • 1942 - Women’s Army Corps • National Debt increased to $250 billion • 1941 - Pearl Harbour • Racial discrimination
WAR TWO • 1941 - Fair Employment Practices • Tuskegee Airmen (African- • In 1945 the GNP rose to $166.6 • 1941 - Lend Lease highlighted by war
1939-1945 Committee Americans) • 1941-45 - Wartime alliance • 1942 - Double V
(US • Gov spending increased from $6.1 • Fair Employment Practices with Russia Campaign
JOINED IN billion to $64.5 billion Committee • 1945 - Potsdam and Yalta • 1944 - Calls for
1941) • Role of women changed by war Conferences internment of
involvement Japanese-Americans
• Better wages post Pearl Harbour -
forbade by Supreme
Court
PERIOD EVENTS DEVELOPMENTS
FOREIGN • Monroe Doctrine (1823 onwards) • Manifest Destiny and Westward • Benefitted from taking over trade • Broadly isolationist • 1865 - Emancipation
POLICY • Wilson’s 14 Point Plan Expansion links during WW1 • Fear of Communist revolution • Segregation in army
1865-1900 • League of Nations failed to go through • Immigration from Europe and Asia • NY Stock Exchange 2nd in world by from 1917 (US Communist troops
• Neutrality until 1917 (late 1800s, early 1900s) 1890 party established 1919)
• Return to Normalcy after WW1 • 1899 - Open Door Policy with China • Loans to allies during WW1 • 1898 - Annexation of Hawaii
• Pan American Conference 1881 and • Immigration increase due to WW1 • 1882 - Naval Expansion • 1903 - Panama Canal (given
Union 1889 • 1867 - Burlingame Treaty with China rights to build canal as part of
(promoted trade and movement of supporting Panama’s
people) interdependence)
1920s • Republican dominance • Flapper movement • WW1 boosted economy • Broadly isolationist (eg no • Harlem Renaissance
• 1917 - Literacy Act • Industrial North vs Agricultural South • Pro-business Gov League of Nations) • NAACP
• Increase in federal intervention • Anti-social reforms - Mellon Plan - • Stock market boom - early 1920s • National Origin Act limited • 1920 - 19th
• Congress largely laissez-faire Raised tariffs • Low taxes contributed to boom immigration from parts of Asia Amendment (votes for
• Wilson - Return to Normalcy • Prohibition = bootleggers and • Ford Motor Co. contributed to boom and Europe women)
• National Origin Act speakeasies • 1929 - Wall Street Crash • Tariffs slowed international • KKK resurgence and
• Hoover - Rugged Individualism • Consumerism trade increase in presence of
• 18th Amendment (1919) Prohibition • Europe didn’t repay debts WASPs
• 1917 Literacy Act
DEPRESSI • 1929 - Agricultural Marketing Act • 1932 - Unemployment relief from • Reconstruction finance corporation • 1931 - Moratorium on war • Works Progress
ON AND • 1930 - Hawley-Smoot Tariff Gov • 1933 -Emergency Banking Relief Act debts Administration (1935)
THE NEW • 1932 - Federal Home Loan Act • Veterans Administrations and Bonus • 1933 - Glass-Steagall Act • Mexican migrants didn’t was ‘colour-blind’
DEAL • Roosevelt - intro of New Deal (1932) Army • Regulation of Stock Exchange benefit from the New Deal • Increase in lynchings
1st NEW • 100 days = increased federal • 1933 - Tennessee Valley Authority • Gov salaries cut 25% for spending • Constitution of the
DEAL intervention • 1933 - Public Works Administration on ‘Alphabet Agencies’ during the Congress of Industrial
2nd NEW • Democratic hegemony • National Recovery Admin 100 days Organisations
DEAL • Federal Emergency Relief Act • 1935 - Social Securities Act prohibited racial
discrimination
FOREIGN • 1921 - Washington Conference • Immigration limited due to National • Tariffs in 1920 slowed international • Monroe Doctrine and Policy of • 1942 - Double V
POLICY • 1921 - Four Powers Treaty Origin Act trade Containment Campaign (victory at
1920-1945 • Return to Normalcy (early 1920s) • 1921 - Open Door Policy with China • Europe didn’t repay WW1 debts • Broadly isolationist home and victory
• 1936-1939 - Neutrality Acts 1-5 • 1941 - Pearl Harbour • 1931 - Moratorium on War Debts • 1928 - Kellog-Brand Pact abroad)
• 1924 - Dawes and Young Plans • 1924-29 US involvement in
• 1941 - Lend Lease Latin America doubled
• Good Neighbour Policy
WORD • 1939 - Neutrality Act 5 • 1942 - Women’s Army Corps • National Debt increased to $250 billion • 1941 - Pearl Harbour • Racial discrimination
WAR TWO • 1941 - Fair Employment Practices • Tuskegee Airmen (African- • In 1945 the GNP rose to $166.6 • 1941 - Lend Lease highlighted by war
1939-1945 Committee Americans) • 1941-45 - Wartime alliance • 1942 - Double V
(US • Gov spending increased from $6.1 • Fair Employment Practices with Russia Campaign
JOINED IN billion to $64.5 billion Committee • 1945 - Potsdam and Yalta • 1944 - Calls for
1941) • Role of women changed by war Conferences internment of
involvement Japanese-Americans
• Better wages post Pearl Harbour -
forbade by Supreme
Court
