World War I and the Red Scare

Causes of entry, Opposition to the war, Anti-German Hun Campaign, Anti-Radical, Sedition Act, Palmer Raids, Red Scare.

Students will conduct online research on each of the opposition figures in order to learn more about what constitutes a reputable source.

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1. World War I & the Red Scare
4. TRIPLE ENTENTE
5. TRIPLE ALLIANCE
6. TRIPLE ALLIANCE TRIPLE ENTENTE
7. CENTRAL POWERS ALLIED POWERS
8. CENTRAL POWERS ALLIED POWERS 1917
9. 1914 - 1918
10. APRIL 6th, 1917
11. Why did the United States enter World War I… on the side of Great Britain?
12. Why did the United States ente…on the side of Great Britain and the Allies?
14. The Lusitania
18. OTHER REASONS?
22. The Spanish-American War, 1898-99
27. : $3 billion
29. $27 million
30. $27 million
32. British Blockade U-Boat Blockade
35. Undeclared submarine warfare 2:11
36. OPPOSITION
37. Traditional Suspicion
38. Traditional Suspicion Washington’s Farewell Address “Why, by interweaving our destiny with that of any part of Europe, entangle our peace and prosperity in the toils of European ambition, rivalship, interest, humor or caprice? It is our true policy to steer clear of permanent alliances with any portion of the foreign world…” (1796)
39. 373-50
40. “Dough-boys” 300,000 / 300,000
42. “Where The Fate Of The War Rests” “Upon the farmers of this country, therefore, in large measure rests the fate of the war and the fate of the nations. May the nation not count upon them to omit no step that will increase the production of their land or that will bring about the most effectual cooperation in the sale and distribution of their products?”
43. 1916: >900,000
46. APATHY?
47. Woodrow Wilson: “Symbolic Politics”
49. “Hate the Hun” Campaign
50. “Hate the Hun” Campaign
51. “Hate the Hun” Campaign
56. SAUERKRAUT
57. “LIBERTY CABBAGE”
58. HAMBURGER
59. “LIBERTY STEAK”
61. “LIBERTY MEASLES”
64. ANTI-RADICAL
65. Espionage and Sedition Acts 1917-1918
66. The Sedition Act made it a crime to “willfully utter, print, write, or publish any disloyal, profane, scurrilous, or abusive language about the form of the Government of the United States” or to “willfully urge, incite, or advocate any curtailment of the production” of the things “necessary or essential to the prosecution of the war.”
69. “RED” EMMA GOLDMAN
70. “RED” EMMA GOLDMAN “There Is No Communism in Russia”
72. WALTER MATHEY
74. Rev. CLARENCE WALDRON
75. Rev. CLARENCE WALDRON “A Christian can take no part in the war.”
76. Rev. CLARENCE WALDRON → 15 years
77. JOHN WHITE
78. JOHN WHITE “[The] murder of innocent women and children by German soldiers was no worse than what the United States’ soldiers did in the Philippines.”
79. JOHN WHITE → 21 months
80. “BIG BILL” HAYWOOD IWW
81. “BIG BILL” HAYWOOD → 30 YEARS
82. EUGENE DEBS
83. EUGENE DEBS “The master class has always declared wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.”
84. EUGENE DEBS → 10 YEARS
86. “RED(SCARE) SUMMER” 1919
88. Strikes, Prohibition, Suffrage, Race Riots, Bombings, Influenza, Disillusionment
90. “The Flu Felt Around the World” (2018) 10:00
91. Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer
92. Palmer R a i d s
93. Palmer R a i d s
95. “[The] blaze of revolution [was] eating its way into the homes of the American workmen, its sharp tongues of revolutionary heat… licking the altars of the churches, leaping into the belfry of the school bell, crawling into the sacred corners of American homes, burning up the foundations of society.” January, 1920
96. May 1st, 1920?
97. May 1st, 1920.