Today we have a Quiz on Day 2 of World War I. Be sure you understand the objectives. Analyze and evaluate the ongoing tension between individual liberty and national security. What is an example of this and what does it show us about a government and society. Explain how American society has been impacted by the entry of more women, minorities, and immigrant workers into the labor force. How does this objective connect with the one about “expanding democracy in America”?

Post-War Issues- Isolationism, Red Scare and Anti-Immigration

WWI creates anti- German feelings in US After war-leads to dislike of many other immigrant groups

Recall: nativism=hostility towards immigrants Following WWI, America returns to nativism Americans want to things to go back to “normal”-kick out everybody that is “different” Example of nativism: Chinese Exclusion Act

Appeals to people’s desire to go back to “normal” Americans want to be very isolationist No involvement in “foreign entanglements” (stayed out of League of Nations) Cultural isolation-No desire to allow immigrants into country (nativism)

Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks lead a communist revolution in Russia during the war. They overthrow the Czarist government and assassinate the royal family. Communism is generally associated with the color “Red.”

Anti-immigrant and anti-communist fears Communism=total equality of wealth (no class society-like capitalism has) Americans desire to expel “other” cultures and ideas from the country

National Origins Acts: Immigration Act of 1921 and 1924 placed quotas on immigrants coming from southern and eastern Europe, limiting immigration from those regions (this is where a lot of communist governments were established) Sacco and Vanzetti trial: Two Italian immigrants were convicted and sentenced to death for a store robbery. Evidence against them was very weak The men were unjustly persecuted because they were Italian

A. Mitchell Palmer, US Attorney General was well known for his efforts to hunt down communists in the United States. His theory was that communists were a direct threat to law and order and the American way of life and therefore they needed to be deported. So he proceeded with smashing Union offices and other communist centers as well as arresting suspected communists in the name of National Security. Eventually his actions are found to be unconstitutional, despite their original popularity.

Reemergence of Ku Klux Klan KKK regains support and grows in South Related to Red Scare desires to reject all groups different from the “norm” It is important to note that Northern state governments were being taken over by KKK.

1920s was a time when many Americans wanted a “return to normalcy.” They wanted to expel all those that were “different” and be culturally and physically isolated. Huge resurgence in nativism leads to Red Scare-effort to expel many immigrants and communist believers KKK resurges-persecution of African Americans increases.