Introduction The Road to War The Strains of Neutrality U-boat attacks on Allied shipping Sinking of the Lusitania Peace and Preparedness Divided public opinion U.S. loans to the Allies Wilson’s reelection Entry into the War Germany’s stepped-up U-boat attacks The Zimmerman telegram U.S. declaration of war Prosecuting the War Initial Lack of Preparedness Financing the War Taxation "Liberty Loans" War Production Mobilization strategies reliance on big business voluntarism federal management The Food Administration Prohibition Long-term impact of federal intervention Science to the Front Into Combat Allied weakness The Russian Revolution The convoy Selective service The American Expeditionary Force Costs low U.S. casualty rate Spanish influenza shell shock Wartime Society A booming economy economic indicators labor business African Americans migration north racial tensions military service Women new employment opportunities suffrage Assaults on civil liberties Committee on Public Information anti-Germanism and anti-immigrant sentiment Espionage and Sedition Acts repression of dissent Retreat from Internationalism Ending the War Wilson’s "Fourteen Points" The armistice The Versailles Peace Conference Treaty of Versailles Treaty of Sevres and Balfour Declaration Analysis of the terms of peace Allied intervention in Russia Battle over the League of Nations Opposition in the Senate Wilson’s collapse Failure to ratify the Versailles Treaty Treaty of Berlin Unrest and Reaction Demobilization and labor strife Racial and ethnic tensions The Red Scare anarchist bombings the Palmer raids rising xenophobia Republican Reign The election of 1920 Harding, then Coolidge Harding’s brief tenure Coolidge and the election of 1924 pro-business conservatism Foreign Affairs Military research and development (R&D) Washington Arms Limitation Conference Kellogg-Briand Pact Dealings with Latin America A private internationalism A Prosperous Nation Construction The Auto Industry Technological advances Ford’s competitors Highway improvements Fueling economic growth Appliances and Radio Electrification Appliance industry Radio Flaws in the Economy Redistribution of wealth upward Labor weakness of unions welfare capitalism conditions of assembly line work Agriculture economic woes rise of agribusiness overproduction farm life Metropolitan Life The growth of suburbia accelerated by car ownership congestion and parking problems impact on cities Mass media radio movies newspapers celebrities Consumerism advertising impact of Prohibition Health, public and private sanitation, medical advances, and child development eugenics The Jazz Age Cultural Ferment Writers and readers Painters Criticism of urban technological civilization The Vitality of Science Artists’ fascination with science and technology Robert Millikan University science Blacks in the Cities The Great Migration Marcus Garvey and the UNIA The Harlem Renaissance Jazz Women Appeals to female voters Flappers, birth control, and marriage Women in the workforce Backlash Revival of the Klan Immigration restriction supporters of immigration restriction National Origins Act of 1924 Mexican immigrants The Sacco and Vanzetti case The Scopes trial rise of Fundamentalism the trial The Hoover Peak The Election of 1928 Herbert Hoover vs. Alfred E. Smith Analysis of results The "Great Engineer" Biography Political philosophy Bright Calm Hoover’s agenda and achievements Economic danger signs