1. Post-War Demobilization and Red Scare
When you come in - look at the picture at right and explain what the author is trying to tell the American public

2. The War Comes to an End November 11th, at 11AM in 1918
8.5 Million dead, 21 million wounded
Civilian cost as well…
Monetary cost as well…
A little over 50,000 American deaths
Treaty of Versailles

3. Below is a distillation of Wilson’s 14 points - what causes of the war was each trying to address?
Ending secret treaties
Agreeing to freedom of the seas
Removing economic barriers to trade
Reducing the size of national armies and navies
Adjusting colonial claims with fairness towards colonial peoples
Redrawing national borders – giving of self- determination
Creation of League of Nations
Yet the US never ratifies this agreement

4. Real Impacts of Demobilization
Steel
Boston Police
Seattle General

5. What led to the Red Scare?

6. Why did Americans fear “reds” so much.
Attorney General A. Mitchel Palmer’s House
Palmer Raids
6,000
500
Sedition and Espionage Act – the strikes that take place

7. Introduction to the Roaring 20’s
Today we will watch a video that encapsulates the 1920’s, it does a good job of hitting major events and ideas and explaining how we will understand this time period.
The Roaring 20’s
Rebellion Reaction