9:4 The War's Impact Government removes controls on economy Result: inflation an increase in the price you pay for goods Cost of living increases Factories laid off workers
9:4 Inflation leads to strikes Seattle Shipyard Strike A “general” strike Involves workers across many industries, not just one Boston Police Strike Steel Strike 350,000 workers
9:4 The Red Scare Wave of strikes worried many Americans Believed Communists were to blame Communist International Spread Communism throughout world
9:4 U.S. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer Home was bombed Created “Special Intelligence Division” in Justice Department Became Federal Bureau of Investigation (F.B.I.) J. Edgar Hoover