Test #2 Flashcards
Espionage Acts of 1917 & 1918
Penalties up to 20 years for obstructing a draft
If you oppose war you were a traitor
Socialist were put in jail for opposing the war
Anti-German
Committee on public information
A govt. Agency to make war popular
Helped promote war films
Put add urging people to report anyone again the war
Made Germans look evil
Major race riots
White men would go to the home or black men and killed and burned thier homes
Presidents were also racist
Price of WW1 in the 1920s
Bashing immigrants, beating up immigrants
Domestic effects of WW1 (1917-1920)
1) Committe on Public Information
2) Espionage Acts
3) Race Riots
4) leads to 1920s (bashing immigrants)
Internment camps
Japanese Immigrants were put there simply because they were from Japanese decent
*concentration camps
The Draft
More people getting affected by it
Alien and sedition(traitor) Acts of 1798
If you criticised the war you commited treason
Mc Carthyism of the 1950s
Went after teachers because they were said to be communist
Significance of war
People thought the war had United them and that it got rid of the bad people
War was good for the economy because it produced jobs