Post War Problems

SWBAT: Understand the differences/similarities and advantages/Disadvantages of Capitalism and Communism.

Homework: “Labor Unrest” worksheet

Do Now: Define (the best you can) capitalism and communism

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The Game- Round One• Everyone is given a random number of Hersey Kisses. Some will have

a few and others will have many.

• Write down the number you were given on your paper.

• Get up and play rock, paper, scissors, shoot and each time you lose, you must give the winner a Hersey kiss.

• Once you run out of candy, you must sit down.

Welcome to Capitalism

• Private ownership of industry and land

• Freedom to compete

• Results in different economic classes

How would you define capitalism using the game we played as a guide?

What would be some advantages/disadvantages to this system?

Round Two• I will take back all of the candy and redistribute it equally among everyone.

• Again, get up and play rock, paper, scissors, shoot and again each time you lose, you must give the winner a Hersey kiss.

• Once you run out of candy, you must sit down.

Welcome to Communism • Government owns all industry and land

• Classless society.

• Strives for equality (everyone is paid the same amt.)

How would you define capitalism using the game we played as a guide?

What would be some advantages/disadvantages to this system?

Why does this matter in a post-WWI world?• 1917 Russia’s czar was overthrown and

executed by communists under Vladimir Lenin.

• Russian Bolsheviks called for a world wide overthrow of capitalists systems.

• A communist party formed in the US and attracted a lot of people.

• When radicals sent bombs to business and government leaders, people thought that communists were going to take over.

• This is the beginning of the “Red Scare”.

The Palmer Raids• In 1919 Mitchell Palmer, J. Edgar Hoover, and their agents tracked

down suspected communists, socialists, and anarchists.

• Completely disregarded civil rights: entered people’s homes and offices without warrants jailed people without allowing them legal council Deported immigrants without trials.

• The raids failed to turn up evidence of any revolutionary conspiracy.

• The raids did however increase American’s fear of immigrants and foreigners.

What did this lead to?

•Nativism: prejudice against foreign-born people.

• Isolationism: a policy of pulling away from involvement in world affairs.

Victims of these attitudes

• Italian immigrants and anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were arrested and charged with robbery and murder of a factory paymaster and his guard.

• Witnesses said the murderers “appeared” to be Italian.

• At the trial, both men had provided alibis during the time of the murders.

• Nonetheless, the judge found them guilty of murder and sentenced them to death by electric chair.

A personal voice• “In all my life I have never stole, never killed, never spilled blood. We

were tried during a time when there was hysteria of resentment and date against the people of our principles, against the foreigner. I am suffering because I am a radical and indeed I am a radical I have suffered because I was an Italian and indeed I am an Italian…If you could execute me two times, and if I could be reborn two other times, I would live again to do what I have done already.”

Bartolomeo Vanzetti

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