The Red Scare Could it happen here!?.

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The Red Scare Could it happen here!?

Economic Questions What to produce? Who decides? How to make the product? Means of Production Who will get it? Distribution Economic Questions

Spectrums

Calculated Strategy Lenin exiled previously, for stirring up dissent. Germans let him back into Russia in 1918 on a sealed train. Why? Calculated Strategy

The Bolsheviks Lenin’s Promise: “Peace, Land, and Bread” Appealed to industrial workers and peasants alike. Marx: inevitable progression, through capitalism, to socialism. Lenin: we can bypass capitalism through armed revolution, go straight to socialism. The Bolsheviks

Anti-Bolshevik Propaganda – ca. 1918

The Comintern

Meanwhile, Back at Home…

The Sedition Act – 1918 was an Act of the US Congress signed into law by President Wilson on May 16, 1918. It forbade the use of "disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language" about the United States government, its flag, or its armed forces or that caused others to view the American government or its institutions with contempt. Made deportation process much easier. The Sedition Act

Emma Goldman

Atty. Gen. A. Mitchell Palmer

Palmer Raids

The “Soviet Ark” – USS Buford

Sacco & Vanzetti

Nativism: a policy favoring the interests of established inhabitants over those of immigrants (the fear of foreigners). Nativism

Nativism

Immigration Policy Changes Immigration Acts 1921 – “Emergency Quota Act” (3% 1910 Census) 1924 – National Origins Act (2% 1890 Census) Targeted Southern/Eastern European Immigrants Prohibited Middle-Eastern, Asian Immigrants 1929 – Cap of 150,000 annually (instead of %) Immigration Policy Changes

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