 US 2 Mr. Perry

 A rare form of the flu hit the US in 1918 and would spread around the world and kill millions  Caused great fear around the world, particularly because it was immediately following the deadliest war in history

 During the war African Americans had moved North to cities where jobs were available  Following the war, with soldiers returning home, there were fewer jobs and tension in the cities was at an all-time high  Race riots broke out in cities in 1919, the worst in Chicago where a young black boy was drowned by a group of whites  Violence in Chicago lasted nearly two weeks  Another riot two years later in Tulsa, Ok left over 30 dead and an entire neighborhood burned to the ground

1. Define Inflation 2. Why did farmers begin to struggle following the war? 3. Why were strikes so common in the postwar period?

 The rise of Communism in the new Soviet Union as well as revolutionary activity in the US following the war cause the “Red Scare” (fear of communists and radicals in the US)  A series of mail bombings prompted Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer to begin rounding up suspected radicals  The bombings targeted the wealthy and powerful, including Palmer himself and a bombing on Wall St in NYC  Palmer arrested thousands of immigrants, most without any evidence and many were deported back to their country of origin  The ACLU was formed to protect the rights of the wrongfully accused

1. What were they charged with having done? 2. What was the outcome of the trial? 3. Why were many outraged by the verdict? 4. How did the Red Scare eventually calm down?

 Republican Warren G Harding told Americans he would return them to “normalcy” in the election of 1920 and the voters elected him in a landslide over James Cox of Ohio  This ruined Wilson’s hopes that the US would ever join his League of Nations  By 1920 the US was the most industrialized and richest nation in the world, a creditor nation lending more than it borrowed  With traditional European empires in Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary and the Ottoman Empire crumbled and Britain and France in economic trouble following the war the US could no longer separate itself from world affairs