An Unsettled Society

2. - Most celebrated defense attorney. Defended Scopes, and his right to teach/discuss evolution.
7. - Director of the CPI. Created and sold posters that dramatized the needs of America and its allies in the war. Also spoke at rallies.
9. - The commander of the US Forces in Europe.
10. - The growing trend to emphasize science and secular values over traditional religious beliefs.
12. Opposed treaty of Versailles in every way. Stay out of world affairs. Did not want to have to “fight for” other countries.
13. - Republican President elected in 1920. Signaled the end of support for continuation of League of Nations. America wanted to move on.
14. Supported the treaty as it was written. Believed no changes were necessary. Wanted to be a part of the League of Nations.
15. - This group of states (Countries) would work together to ensure that every country had the guarantees of political independence and territorial integrity.

1. - Devotion to one’s nation above all else. Social Darwinism played a role in the moral and racial superiority of certain nation’s thinking they had the right to do as they pleased in the world.
3. Henry Cabot Lodge - Make amendments to the treaty, didn’t like the League of Nations removing national sovereignty to declare war.
4. - Goods, usually defined as weapons or other articles used to fight in a war, to be confiscated by any belligerent nation.
5. - The glorification of the military. Arms race competition between different countries and their militaries.
6. - Peace without victory. This was Wilson’s solution to achieve peace without vengeance or or greed or punishment so the world could heal.
8. - Battle ground in NE France that became the critical battlefront. Whoever won this, would likely win the war.
11. - A trial that pit modernism versus fundamentalism. The theory of evolution, developed by Charles Darwin , believed that complex forms of life had developed from simpler forms of life.