6.4 The War’s Impact

6.4 The War’s Impact

Follow along in your notes from chapter 6 and write down anything new you learn from the video in your notes

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America on the Western Front

Wilson’s 14 Points

35,000 shipyard workers demand higher wages and shorter hours

“General Strike” involves all workers living in a certain location, not just workers in a particular industry

Seattle Strike involved more than 60,000 people

General Strike was common in Europe by communists and other radical

Seattle General Strike

Companies forced to raise wages during the war (National War Labor Board)

During the workers in labor unions increase Big business determined to break union

power 1919 - 3,600 strikes

Inflation Leads to Strikes

1919, Boston MA 75% of the police force walked off the job Riots and looting erupted – Calving Coolidge

called the National Guard

“There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.”

The Boston Police Strike

350,000 steelworkers went on strike for higher pay, shorter hours and recognition of their labor union

Elbert H. Gary, the head of U.S. Steel, refused to talk to union

Tried to break the union by using anti-immigrant feelings to divide the workers

Many steel workers were immigrants◦ Companies hired African Americans and Mexicans

as replacement workers

The Steel Strike

Hundreds of thousands of soldiers Competed with African Americans who had

moved north during the war 1919, over 20 race riots broke out across the

nation

Racial Unrest

What were the major reasons for the race riots?

Who is the man smashing the black rioter and white together?

Quickwrite

Wave of strikes in 1919 fueled fears that Communists were conspiring to start a revolution

Americans were stunned (and scarred) when Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized power

Americans became anti-German as the war progressed

American anger at Germany expanded to anger at Communist

The Red Scare

Red Scare: Americans feared Communists, or “reds” as they were called, might seize power

April of 1919 the postal service incepted 30 parcels addressed to leading businessman and politicians with bombs in them

A Mitchell Palmer, U.S. Attorney General◦ Believed the bombings were the work of

Communists or other revolutionaries trying to destroy “American” way of life

The Red Scare

J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of the Justice Department, the General Intelligence Division

J. Edgar Hoover later became the director of the FBI

Series of raids rounded up and deported (expelled from the country) Americans

The Palmer Raids

Political Cartoons

On page ? of your note book draw a political cartoon of the “Red Scare”◦ Remember what the reasons for social unrest

were◦ Remember the postal parcels bombs◦ Remember the Palmer Raids

Your turn