Domestic Flashcards
Communism
- the Russian Revolution created the first Communist state and Americans began to fear those ideas
- communism favors the poor, which America has many of
- the Red Scare was an event where 34 bombs were mailed to government officials but were found before going off, & immigrants began to get deported, particulary ones from Eastern Europe in fear that they would overthrow the US gov
African Americans
Great Migration: moved north west to escape Southern discrimination & secured ww1 jobs
Economy
Making huge profits from war, challenging labor activists
Armenia
“Young Turks” wanted to make everyone in the Ottoman Empire Turkish and said that the Armenians were siding with Russia during ww1 but were more likely just targeting non-islamic Armenians
Armenian Genocide: going city-from-city gathering Armenians and forcing them to march, treating them very poorly, and then blaming deaths on them not being able to handle the journey
Government
- Liberty Bonds, funded the war (if u bought for $10 now, you’d get $20 back)
- Sedition Act
- Espionage Act
- Gov encouraging Mexican migration for workers
Sedition Act
if you harm the US’s chances in war or prevent the military from waging war
ex: preventing someone from buying a liberty bond, protesting a wartime president
Espionage Act
if you help the enemy
ex: giving hand drawn maps of the US to the Germans
Women
Nurses & wartime jobs
Business
Limited resources during war, are you gonna make guns or butter (aka domestic goods)? Guns to win, factories transitioned to making guns instead of “butter” for the war
Urban vs. Rural
city had the wartime jobs