2025 USH 5: 1920s - 1930s: Key Terms and People Review

A period of intense fear of communism and radical leftist ideologies in the United States.

• The Red Scare

• The Great Depression

• The Cold War

• McCarthyism

Severe droughts in the 1930s that devastated agriculture in the U.S. Midwest.

• Dust Bowl

• Great Depression

• New Deal

• Agricultural Adjustment Act

Known for his avant-garde poetry that broke traditional syntax and structure.

• E.E. Cummings

• T.S. Eliot

• Sylvia Plath

• Robert Frost

A modernist poet known for works like The Waste Land and Four Quartets.

• T.S. Eliot

• Ezra Pound

• William Carlos Williams

• Langston Hughes

Novelist who chronicled the Jazz Age in works like 'The Great Gatsby'; part of the Lost Generation.

• F. Scott Fitzgerald

• Ernest Hemingway

• William Faulkner

• John Steinbeck

Photographer famous for documenting life during the Great Depression, including iconic images from the Dust Bowl era.

• Dorothea Lange

• Ansel Adams

• Walker Evans

• Robert Frank

An ideology advocating for a classless society where property is publicly owned.

• Socialism

• Communism

• Fascism

• Capitalism

High-risk investments in stocks with the hope of significant returns, contributing to the 1929 stock market crash.

• Stock Market Speculation

• Value Investing

• Dividend Investing

• Index Fund Investing

Laws limiting the number of immigrants allowed into the U.S., often targeting specific ethnic groups.

• Immigration Quotas

• Visa Restrictions

• Naturalization Laws

• Refugee Policies

A 1930 U.S. law that raised tariffs on imported goods, worsening global trade during the Great Depression.

• Smoot-Hawley Tariff

• Tariff of 1816

• McKinley Tariff

• Fordney-McCumber Tariff