AHTWO: 12.1 STRUGGLING WITH POSTWAR ISSUES

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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