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AMERICAN HISTORY IIMR. HOOD29 APRIL 2014
12.1 AMERICA STRUGGLES WITH POSTWAR ISSUES
AMERICAN HISTORY IIMR. HOOD`S NOTES29 APRIL 2014
KEY IDEA
A DESIRE FOR NORMALITY AFTER THE WAR AND A FEAR OF COMMUNISM
AND “FOREIGNERS” LED TO POSTWAR ISOLATIONISM.
WHY IT MATTERS NOW
AMERICANS TODAY CONTINUE TO DEBATE POLITICAL ISOLATIONISM
AND IMMIGRATION POLICY.
INTRODUCTION
THE GREAT WAR WAS OVER
TREATY OF VERSAILLE HAD BEEN SIGNED
BUT USA WAS DIVIDED
OVER LEAGUE OF NATIONS
AMERICANS WERE EXHAUSTED
MANY SOLDIERS RETURNED FROM WAR
UNEMPLOYED
COST OF LIVING HAD DOUBLED
USA EXPERIENCED A WAVE OF NATIVISM
NATIVISM IS A PREJUDICE AGAINST
FOREIGN PEOPLE
ISOLATIONISM ALSO
SWEPT UNITED STATES
PULLING AWAY FROM
INVOLVEMENT IN WORLD AFFAIRS
OBJECTIVE 1SUMMARIZE THE
REACTION IN THE UNITED STATES TO THE
PERCEIVED THREAT OF COMMUNISM
COMMUNISM
A PERCEIVED THREAT TO THE UNITED STATES
COMMUNISM IS
SINGLE PARTY GOVERNMENT
LED BY A DICTATOR
IN ORDER TO EQUALIZE WEALTH
AND POWER
THE GOVERNMENT
CONTROLS EVERYTHING
PANIC BEGAN IN USA
CALLED THE “RED SCARE”
WHEN RUSSIAN BOLSHEVIKS ESTABLISHED
COMMUNIST STATE
LENIN CALLED FOR WORLDWIDE
REVOLUTION
CALLED FOR AN END TO
CAPITALISM
UNITED STATES
COMMUNIST PARTY WAS FORMED
70, 000 PEOPLE JOINED
THEY SENT BOMBS TO LEADING USA
OFFICIALS
INCLUDING US ATTORNEY GENERAL A. PALMER
AND J. EDGAR HOOVER
REMEMBER THE MOVIE?
HOOVER HUNTED THESE
RED ANARCHISTS
TRAMPLED CIVIL RIGHTS
INVADED SUSPECTS HOMES
AND DEPORTED FOREIGN RADICALS
SUSPECTS OFFERED NO LEGAL
COUNSEL
BUT J. EDGAR HOOVER
FOUND NOTHING
“RED SCARE” WAS SHORTLIVED
US PUBLIC LOST FAITH
BUT RED SCARE FED SUSPICIONS OF FOREIGNERS +
IMMIGRANTS
THE 2 MOST FAMOUS VICTIMS
WERE SACCO + VANZETTI
UNFAIRLY ACCUSED OF CRIME + SENTENCED
TO DEATH
OBJECTIVE 2ANALYZE THE CAUSES AND
EFFECTS OF THE QUOTA SYSTEM IN THE UNITED STATES
NATIVISM GREW
“KEEP AMERICA FOR AMERICA”
AMERICANS TURNED AGAINST
IMMIGRANTS
BECAUSE IMMIGRANTS WORKED
FOR LESS MONEY
TOOK “AMERICAN” JOBS
NATIVISM LED TO RACISM
THIS LED TO RISE AGAIN OF
KLU KLUX KLAN
K.K.K. DEVOTED TO
“100% AMERICANISM”
K.K.K. ATTACKED ROMAN CATHOLICS,
AND JEWS
+ AFRICAN-AMERICANS
KKK BASED ON
RACIAL VIOLENCE
IN RESPONSE GOVERNMENT INTRODUCED
QUOTA SYSTEM
LIMITED IMMIGRATION
THE SYSTEM WORKED
RESTRICTED VOLUME OF IMMIGRANTS TO
USA
QUOTA NOT APPLICABLE TO
WESTERN HEMISPHERE
CANADIANS AND MEXICANS CONTINUED TO ARRIVE IN
USA
OBJECTIVE 3DESCRIBE SOME OF
THE POSTWAR CONFLICTS BETWEEN
LABOR AND MANAGEMENT
ANOTHER POSTWAR CONFLICT
LABOR AND MANAGEMENT
DURING WARTIME THERE WERE NO
STRIKES
AFTER WAR THERE WERE MANY
STRIKES
WORKERS WANTED BETTER
CONDITIONS
EMPLOYERS TRIED TO STOP
UNIONS
STRIKERS WERE
LABELLED “COMMUNISTS”
UNIONS MADE LIMITED GAINS
AND ATTITUDES TOWARDS UNIONS SOON
CHANGED