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How did ww1 have a positive effect on US’s economy between 1914-17 before they entered the war?

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  • huge demand for manufactured goods, food and fuel supplies
  • GB and France very dependent on US for war supplies and loans
  • was difficult to keep up with production but then adapted
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what effect did ww1 have on US’s economy once they entered the war?

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  • huge infrastructure developed
  • bases needed for the US army
  • liberty loans raised funds
  • food/fuel administrations established to regulate/ration resources
  • nationalism of railroads to control transport
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what did exports rising lead to?

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full employment

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what effect did post-ww1 have on the US’s economy?

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  • economy slowed down which lead to the recession in 1921
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what had the US had emerged at?

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worlds economic gaint

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what did the US enhance by the war?

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prestige of American democracy

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what had the prestige been symbolised by?

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WW and his ideals as he dominated the peace conference in Paris from jan 1919
- his ideals called Wilsonian idealism had made the world safer for democracy

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what happended at the Paris peace conference?

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  • WW wanted his 14 points but there were clashes of opinions between delegates and WW backed down on many
  • WW had self-determination
  • treaties were signed
  • borders decided upon
  • LoN created
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what were the effects of post-ww1 back in the US?

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  • widespread opposition
  • growing political issues
  • 50,000 dead in war
  • many died from Spanish flu
  • public turned against European war
  • difficult to sell the ToV and LoN to the public
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what impact did ww1 have on divisions in US?

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  • US growth in patriotism during ww1
  • growth in suspicion/hostility towards socialism
  • nativism grew; KKK revived in 1915
  • recent immigrants were seen as non- Americans- demands grew to root out ‘aliens’
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what was the 1917 Espionage Act that was passed?

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mail could be sized/inspected by postmen, as possible revolutionaries could be arrested

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what was the 1918 Sedition act?

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  • extended powers under Espionage Act
  • 1500 prosecutions carried out
  • 2/3 were convicted
    included Eugene Debs and Emma Goldman
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who was Emma Goldman?

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  • feminist
  • pacifist
  • she was deported to Russia in Dec 1919; by the red ark ; USS Buford
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what was the 1918 immigration act?

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strengthened controls against immigrants

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what was the 1921 Emergency Quota Act?

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drastic limits on immigration

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what was the Red Scare?

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Oct/Nov 1917 Russian Revolution spread fear of communism spreading by immigrants from central/eastern europe

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what did the red scare extended to include

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anarchists, terrorists, pacifists, militant trade unions, german americans, recent immigrants

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what else did ww1 lead to?

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high inflation after ww1 = demobilisation= unemployment= strikes across US
- racial tensions growing

19
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how many workers were involved in the 1919 strikes

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4m

20
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what are some examples of strikes in US?

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  • Seattle, 60,000 workers on general strike
  • Pittsburgh 1919 Great steel strike, lasted 3 months and resulted in violence as businesses/gov tried to crack down on strikers
21
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how many race riots were there in 1919?

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20

22
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what caused the palmer raids?

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US attorney General Mitchell Palmer was convicted of a real socialist threat- heightened by April/May 1919 as bomb packages were sent to public figures

23
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What happened during the palmer raids?

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  • Palmer’s Justice Dept raided offices of radical organisations across 12 cities
  • Dec 1919; 249 radicals deported
  • Jan 1920; 30 cities forced to close communist party HQs
24
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Who were the palmer raids co-ordinated by?

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J Edgar Hoover

25
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what did the palmer raids lead to?

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vigilante action by ordinary citizens

26
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what did the supreme court crack down on?

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palmer and national outcry at rights violations

palmer lost credibilty

27
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by 1917, how much of congress was dry?

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2/3 of congressmen

28
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what did the war strength arguments of?

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the drys

29
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who were usually drys?

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  • anti germans
  • Wilson
  • progressive
30
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when was the 18th amendment ratified?

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1919

31
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who was against 18th amendment?

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wets

32
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What were Womens Christian temperance union prominent for?

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pro-suffrage and pro-temperance movements

33
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When did AAs have high hopes?

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beginning of ww1

34
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what did many AAs believe volunteering to fight would lead to?

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be rewarded with equality

35
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why did AAs move to the north, how many went to north cities and where?

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  • to work for the war effort in larger cities

- 300,000 flew towards Chicago and NYC

36
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what were the positves impacts for AAs after ww1?

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  • many returned home with experiences/education
  • led to a huge increase in NAACP membership
  • assertive leaders like DuBois gained support for challenging old’Uncle Tom’ approach
37
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what were the negative impacts for AAs after ww1?

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  • still segregated in US army and treated as inferiors

- Red Summer 1919= racial tensions spilled into racial riots, e.g. race war in St Louis July 1919

38
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how had there been a huge change in US politics from 1919-20?

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from progressivism and idealism towards political reaction, rejecting internationalism and WW’s legacy

39
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what happened at 1920 elections

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Reps won majority in congress and presidency

40
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why did Reps win 1920 elections?

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  • long-term reaction against temperance
  • red scare
  • pres candidate Warren G Harding (+ Calvin Coolidge) - calm reasonableness, slogans; ‘Law & order’ ‘America first’
41
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why was there a rejection of Wilsonism?

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  • WW spent long time in Europe, difficult to get ToV ratified
  • war-weariness
  • domestic concerns more pressing
  • committed isolationists like Senator William Borah made more convincing speeches
  • Henry Cabot Lodge thought LoN/ToV went too far
  • WW- exhausted, too stubbon, illness so replaced by James Cox
42
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what happened at the 1920 elections?

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  • back to reps

- democrats won southern states only

43
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how was it the end of progressivism by 1920?

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  • wilsons ideas rejected in 1920
  • LoN not ratified, neither had ToV
  • Reps dominated both houses
  • Harding promised ‘normalcy’; avoid excessive government, keeping internationalism low priority
44
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how wasn’t it the end of progressivism by 1920?

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  • not dead
  • progressive Robert La Follette of Winsonsin ran for pres and got 5 million votes
  • not until New Deal and FDR did it return

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