Domestic Flashcards

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Communism

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  • 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
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African Americans

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Great Migration: moved north west to escape Southern discrimination & secured ww1 jobs

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Economy

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Making huge profits from war, challenging labor activists

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Armenia

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“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

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Government

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  • 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
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Sedition Act

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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

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Espionage Act

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if you help the enemy
ex: giving hand drawn maps of the US to the Germans

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8
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Women

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Nurses & wartime jobs

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Business

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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

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Urban vs. Rural

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city had the wartime jobs

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