American History of the 20th Century Summary

Harding campaign of normalcy enabled him to win a seat as the president of America. However, Harding was old fashion president and his naïve caused him more problems in his administration. He appointed the best men to stand in his cabinet such as Charles E. Hughes to help him in his administration. However, there were some appointments of bad people which brought more scandals during the time in which he was in power. The unions faced more challenges since the employers did not recognize the associations. Drop of union membership by 1929 from the initial 5 million to by then 3. million. After the first term of Coolidge was over, he decided not to run again as the president. This made Herbert Hoover run against Alfred E Smith where Hoover emerged the winner.

In some of the reactions in the Twenties like Nativism and immigration and under these there was Sacco-Vanzetti Trial and on May 5, 1920, Italian Immigrant was arrested for stealing 4 16,000 and Killing two people, Two men were electrocuted after Judge and jury were ethnically prejudiced. Fundamentalism was also one of the reactions in the Twenties, and it led Creationism vs. Theory Evolution, Tennessee outlaws teaching of evolution in public schools, John T. Scope violated state law and William Jennings Bryan. However, in junaury16,1919 there was Women’s Christian movement, Champions of Prohibition, Banned manufacture, transportation of alcohol and sale. However, great migration was caused by insufficient workers in the Northern cities because of World War 1, and Universal Negro Improvement Association was founded in 1916 by Marcus Garvey, and it led to the rise of Black power.

In 1927, Garvey was deported to Jamaica. American and the Great War Although Wilson and William Bryan believe it was their call to promote democracy in the world, President Wilson had little experience in foreign affairs. There was also domination of Mexico from 1876 to 1910 by Porfirio Diaz. In 1911, Francisco Madero led a rebellion against Diaz. In 1954 during Christmas Eve, the Germany soldiers started singing the silent Night after the first verse, and they sang the second verse to the Germans. However, on Christmas day similar forces on the western branch ventured into No man’s land, which was a symbol of a moment of peace in the midst after the most violent occasions in the history. Political ties and strong economic were the main reason why America was involved. After the British had blocked the Northern Sea, in response, Germany came up with the Undersee boot, which used in surprise attacks and in February 1915, Germans announced that they would shoot at any ships without warning since it was a violation of international law.

American started preparing for the war through national Defence Act of 1916 expanded regular army to 175000, naval construction act of 1916 and raised money for military preparedness. Germany allies also drop out of the war on October 3, 1918; New German Chancellor sues for peace. However, Wilson took a long time in Europe; and he loses touch with Americans. Finally, U. S. Senate refuses to ratify Treaty of Versailles. Progressives were in great support of prohibition in the United States to destroy the political power of local bosses based in saloons. Besides, there was also the promotion of women’s suffrage. These two issues led to the constitutional change; the Eighteenth Amendment was later passed in 1917 to ban alcohol. Following the assassination of President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt then became the president of America. He succeeded in expanding the role and visibility of the presidency and expanding the role and scope of the federal government.

He came with many reforms including Tariff reform and Federal Reserve Act. American Empire After the application of Monroe Doctrine in 1895, when America wanted to affirm its control over Latin America, that was the great time in America since it was the time when its Empire started to take shape. American started to build a navy that was to enable them to compete with the world. However, they were not in a hurry and did not show their power until the war between them and the Spanish arose called the Spanish-American war. The harsh treatment of the Cubans seems not to please the American on how they were locked in jail due to the Cuban guerrilla war. February 8, 1904, the devastated Japanese Russians with their worship and Japanese then occupied Korea and Roosevelt receives a Nobel peace prize by negotiating treaties.

Finally, there was Taft Katsura agreement in 1905 and U. S accepted Japanese control over Korea. In 1908, Root Takahira agreement, U. S and Japanese agree to respect each other.