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Postwar Havoc
Vocabulary
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Bolsheviks | The Red Army of the _____________, which was led by Vladimir I. Lenin, eventually gained control. |
| Communism | This system, called __________, would have no economic classes and no private property. |
| Red Scare | A ______________, or widespread fear of communism, gripped the nation. |
| Palmer Raids | He led an attack on suspected radicals known as the ____________. |
| Aliens | For _____________ - citizens of other countries living in the United States - just belonging to certain groups considered could lead to deportation. |
| Deportation | _____________ means removing an alien from one country and sending him or her to another country. |
| Anarchists | More importantly, they proclaimed that they were _____________ - radicals who sought the destruction of government. |
| Assembly Line | These ideas combined to produce the first large-scale moving _______________, a production system in which the item being built moves along a conveyor belt to various workstations. |
| Productivity | _____________ is a measure of output per unit of input such as labor. |
| Welfare Capitalism | The success of business in the 1920s led to a growth of what is called __________________, a system in which companies provide benefits to employees in an effort to promote worker satisfaction and loyalty. |
| Suburbs | As cities grew, so did their _________, the smaller towns located outside urban areas. |
| Installment Buying | Setting the stage for today's credit-card society, the generation of the 1920s turned to _________________ - paying for an item over time in small payments. |
| Credit | They bought on ____________, which is, in effect borrowing money. |
| Teapot Dome | The worst Harding-era scandal involved Secretary of the Interior Albert Fall. Fall accepted bribes in return for allowing oil companies to drill federal oil reserves on a piece of federal land known as _______________ in Wyoming. |
| Reparations | Germany and demanded that it pay extremely high _______________, or payments designed to make up for a damage of the war. |
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