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| 707764475 | The Ohio Gang | Group of politicians and industry leaders associated with Warren G. Harding, many of own met Harden when he was a politician in Ohio hence the name. During his Administration several of the members of the Ohio Gang were found to be corrupt, and involved in many financial scandals, like the Teapot Dome scandal. They were personally removed when Hardin died by Calvin Coolidge | |
| 707764476 | Disarmament Conference | An effort by members of the league of nations and also the United States and great Brittan, to actualize the disarmament ideology starting in Geneva. At this time all major powers except the United States states had committed to disarmament, in both the treaty of Versailles and league of nations. The Conference was called by British Foreign Secretary Arther Henderson and backed by the united states. The talks failed over what arms were considered offensive and which were defensive at seeing how week the league was and after being mocked by France, Germany pulled out of disarmamenmet all together | |
| 707764477 | Five Powers Naval Treaty | Agreement among the major nations that had won World War I, which by the terms of the treaty was meant to stop the arms race by limiting naval power. It stipulated that the United Kingdom, the United States, Japan, France, and Italy, would each limit the construction of battleships, battlecruisers and aircraftcarriers. The numbers of other categories of warships, were not limited by the treaty. It was passed so that the United States and Brittan would have a equal amount of new battle cruisers, it was taken advantage of by Japan who took the time to secretly build up its naval fleet | |
| 707764478 | Four Powers Treaty | Agreement signed by the United States, Great Britain, France and Japan, At the Washington naval conference. In it all countries agreed to keep the status quo in the pacific, not to expand or attack other countries. I actually it killed the Anglo- Japanese Alliance, so that the United states could continue isolationism. the treaty also recognized china as a sovereign nation. the treaty lacked any enforcement, and Japan broke it | |
| 707764479 | Kellogg-Briand Pact | international agreement in which major countries agreed to avoid war even if smaller allied nations were at war. It was signed by Germany, France and the United States. the Pact renounced the use of war and called for the peaceful settlement of disputes. Similar provisions were incorporated into the UN Charter and other treaties and it became a stepping stone to a more activist American policy. the Kellogg-Briand Pact did not live up to its aim of ending war, doing relatively nothing. The pact erased the legal distinction between war and peace since the signatories, having renounced the use of war began to wage wars without declaring war something the United States would began to do throughout its history | |
| 707764480 | Fordney-McCumber Tariff | One of the first legislative trends of the Sixty-Seventh Congress, it was a Republican pushed protectorate policy. It rose tariff rates to their highest level to that time, it granted to the president broad powers to raise or lower rates, and it introduced the American selling price. It more difficult for European nations to conduct trade and, resultantly, to pay off their war debts. It also enabled the growth of monopolies in many American industries both of which resulted in a end to international trade | |
| 707764481 | Teapot Dome Scandal | The greatest and most sensational scandal in the history of American politics, behind Watergate. This bribery incident took place in during the administration of Warren G. Harding. In which his Secretary of the Interior and fellow Ohio ganger Albert B. Fall leased Navy petroleum reserves at Teapot Dome, to private oil companies at low rates without competitive bidding. The scandal itself destroyed the public reputation of the Harding administration, which was already unpopular due to the Great Railroad Strike of 1922 and the President's veto of the Bonus Bill | |
| 707764482 | Silent Cal Coolidge | Nickname President Coolidge, Although Coolidge was known to be a skilled and effective public speaker, in private he was a man of few words and while Vice-President he attend cabinet meetings, making him the first Vice President to do so | |
| 707764483 | Hawley-Smoot Tariff | Congressional Act whichbrought the U.S. tariff to the highest protective level yet in the history of the United States. Hoover only wanted a increases on farm products and adjustment of a few industrial rates, but instead the Senate increased rates on farm products and those of the House on manufactures. It more specifically caused a end to foreign trade and added to the depression | |
| 707764484 | Black Tuesday | Or the Stock Market Crash of 1929 was the most devastating stock market crash in the history of the United States, when taking into consideration its fallout. IT also marked the beginning of the 10-year Great Depression and did not end till World War II. It caused millions to be unemployed after the banks crashed, and a heightened rate of suicide, and crime | |
| 707764485 | Hoovervilles | popular name for shanty towns built during the Great Depression. They were named after Herbert Hoover, who was the President during the Depression and widely blamed for it. The term was coined by Charles Michelson. In these poor communities people would make homes out of garbage cans , cooking pans, and oil drums, this lead to an increase in disease and death | |
| 707764486 | Trickle down philosophy of economics | The most disgusting ideas in economics it suggests that decreasing marginal and capital gains tax rates, especially for corporations, investors and entrepreneurs, can stimulate production in the overall economy. President Hover was the first to push for this, and later influenced by him Reagan would do the same | |
| 707764487 | Bonus Army | popular name of World War I veterans, families, and affiliated groups, who gathered in Washington, D.C., to demand early cash-payment redemption of their service certificates. It was led by Walter W. Waters, a former Army sergeant. In Response to Many of the war veterans being out of work since the beginning of the Great Depression. President Herbert Hoover ordered the army to clear the veterans' campsite. Army Chief of Staff General Douglas MacArthur commanded the infantry and cavalry supported by six tanks. The Bonus Army marchers with their wives and children were driven out, and their shelters and belongings burned | |
| 707764488 | Stimson Doctrine | policy of the United States enforcing non-recognition of international territorial changes that were executed by force. This was directly targeted at the Japanese military occupation of Manchuria along with, the ununited Baltic States | |
| 707764489 | Both Sides "Good Neighbor" policy | foreign policy of President Franklin Roosevelt toward the countries of Latin America. It stated that the united states would continue non-intervention and non-interference in the domestic affairs of Latin America. Overall, the Roosevelt administration expected that this new policy would create new economic opportunities in the form of reciprocal trade agreements and reassert the influence of the United States in Latin America; however it worked only marginally well |
