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From War to Peace
Post World War I
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Political system in which governments owns the means of production and control economic planning within that country. | Communism |
| Widespread fear of communism. | Red Scare |
| A series of government attacks on suspected radicals in the U.S. led by the U.S. Attorney General, Mitchell Palmer. | Palmer Raids |
| Citizens of other countries living in the United States. | Alien |
| Removing an alien from one country and sending him or her to another country. | Deportation |
| Radicals who sought the destruction of government. | Anarchist |
| Entrepreneur who revolutionized factory production through use of the assembly line and popularized the affordable automobile. | Henry Ford |
| A production system in which the item being built moves along a conveyor belt to various workstation. | Assembly Line |
| A system in which companies provide benefits to employees in an effort to promote worker satisfaction and loyalty. | Welfare Capitalism |
| Paying for an item over time in small payments. | Installment buying |
| Borrowing money | Credit |
| A federally owned piece of land in Wyoming that was the site of a government scandel in 1921 when President Harding's secretary of the interior accepted bribes in return for allowing oil companies to drill for oil there. | Teapot Dome |
| 30th President of the United States; he became President upon the death of President Warren G. Harding. He was known for his honesty and his pro-business policies. | Calvin Coolidge |
| Payments designed to make up for the damage of something. | Reparation |
| Competition between nations to gain an advangtage in weapons. | Arms Race |
| Treaty signed in 1928 that rejected war as a way of solving problems between countries. | Kellogg-Briand Pact |
| American general who supported the development of air power in the military. | Billy Mitchell |
| 29th President of the United States; his policies favored business, but his administration was known for scandals. | Warren G. Harding |