CK Roaring 20s

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  1. 4. This treaty allowed, Britain, France, Italy, Japan, and the United States to essentially formalized Hughes’s proposal.
  2. 8. This conference inspired U.S. secretary of state and French foreign minister to propose a treaty to outlaw war altogether.
  3. 10. The United States and 14 other nations signed this Pact. All signing nations agreed to abandon war and to settle all disputes by peaceful means.
  4. 14. This is the idea that the United States will be safer and more prosperous if it stays out of world affairs.
  5. 15. At Mellon’s urging, Congress dramatically reduced ___ rates.
  6. 17. in 1924 this American diplomat negotiated an agreement with France, Britain, and Germany.
  7. 18. America’s former allies, Britain and _____, had difficulty making the payments on their immense war debts.
  8. 19. A critic joked that this person could be “silent in five languages.”
  9. 20. When Mellon took office, he had three major goals: to balance the budget, to reduce the government’s debt, and to ___ taxes.
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  1. 1. The first cabinet secretary to go to prison.
  2. 2. If taxes were lower, businesses and some consumers would spend and invest their extra money. This would cause the economy to grow, and Americans would earn more money. The government then would collect more in taxes. This idea is known today as,
  3. 3. This person was secretary of the treasury under President Harding and the chief architect of economic policy.
  4. 5. sold scarce medical supplies from veterans’ hospitals and kept the money for himself. He cost the public about $250 million.
  5. 6. Under this Secretary of State, the nation tried to use its economic power to promote peace and stability.
  6. 7. Before World War I, the United States was a _____ nation.
  7. 9. Most famous scandal where Harding’s secretary of the interior, Albert B. Fall, secretly allowed private interests to lease lands containing U.S. Navy oil reserves at Teapot Dome, Wyoming, and Elk Hills, California.
  8. 11. guaranteed China’s independence.
  9. 12. Coolidge believed that prosperity rested on business leadership and that government should interfere with business and industry as ______ as possible.
  10. 13. Promised "a return to normalcy" after the war.
  11. 16. People applauded the _________ atmosphere of the Harding administration, replacing the reform and war fervor of President Wilson’s last years.