Check InMake three predictions about the next unit.

REVIEW

Isolationism Interventionism

REVIEW

Idealistic Realistic

Activity

Goal: Biggest

group without a

red dot (spy)

Debrief1. How did you know whom to

stand with? 2. At any time were you absolutely

positive about your decision? 3. Did you have doubts about your

friends in class? 4. Did you change your minds at

any point? If you did change, what made it change?

5. How do you think this relates to our new unit?

Main Idea

Tensions after WWI caused an increase in political radicals – people with very new and different ideas. Two radicals who got

international attention for an alleged murder were Sacco and Vanzetti.

• 1917: Lenin & Bolsheviks create Communist state in Russia

1st RED SCARE

“He said his family used to live on a beautiful farm, but the government took it away from

them. He said the Communists controlled everyone and everything. They couldn't even

cut a tree down on their own property for firewood. He was afraid to walk from the

house to the barn for fear of being shot. You had to be careful of everything you said

because if you said something against the government, you put your life at risk. France's

brother, August, did speak out and was pushed in front of a train and his legs were cut off. The

Communists called it an ‘accident.’ August survived and went to the hospital, where he

was poisoned – another ‘accident.’”

“We had a collie dog that I loved. One day I was hugging the dog and France told me

that people couldn't have dogs in Yugoslavia because they couldn't afford

them. He said people would stand around eating with both hands up to their mouth for fear of dropping crumbs on the floor --

they couldn't afford to drop any food because they didn't have enough to eat. He told me that the Communists brainwashed the citizens with propaganda and changed

the history of their country. I couldn't believe it. ‘How could they get by with

that?’ I thought.”

• Communism: an economic and political system based on a single-party government ruled by a dictatorship

1st RED SCARE

• Communist Party is formed in U.S. Fear of socialists, communists &

anarchists

Opposed all forms of government!

1st RED SCARE

• Palmer Raids (1919) US Attorney General & agents invaded

private homes, offices and jailed suspects without allowing them a lawyer

Foreign-born radicals deported

1st RED SCARE

• Nativism: prejudice against foreign-born people “Keep America For Americans”

• Ku Klux Klan (KKK) rises in prominence again

1st RED SCARE

• Quota System: established the maximum number of people who could move to the U.S. from each foreign country• Created by Emergency Quota Act of

1921

1st RED SCARE

• 1924—amended the law to limit European immigration to 2% of the number of its nationals living in the U.S. in 1890

• 1927—only 150,000 per year

Why would this discriminate against eastern and

southern Europeans?

1st RED SCARE

Nice ‘stache! Thanks,

dude!

I mustache you a question…

Guilty?

Innocen

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