1. March 18, 2014 Aim: What were the effects of WWI on the U.S.?
Do Now: How does this cartoon depict U.S. foreign policy after WWI?

2. Reparations and War Debts
European allies borrowed a great deal of money from the U.S. to buy war supplies.

3. Dawes Plan (1924) U.S. Loans $$ to Germany
Germany pays reparations to Allies
Allies pay war debt to U.S.

4. The First Red Scare,
Bolshevik (communist) revolution in Russia.
Fear of communism, socialists, anarchists, immigrants, labor leaders.

5. First Great Migration – 1918-1930
African Americans migrate North to find industrial work and freedom.
• Why did many African Americans leave the South and move North?
• What was it like in the North for African Americans?
• Why did racial tensions rise right after WWI?

6. Chicago Race Riots