World War I and the Red Scare

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World War I & the Red Scare

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TRIPLE ENTENTE

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TRIPLE ALLIANCE

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TRIPLE ALLIANCE TRIPLE ENTENTE

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CENTRAL POWERS ALLIED POWERS

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CENTRAL POWERS ALLIED POWERS 1917

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1914 - 1918

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APRIL 6th, 1917

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Why did the United States enter World War I… on the side of Great Britain?

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Why did the United States enter World War I… on the side of Great Britain? ente…on the side of Great Britain and the Allies?

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The Lusitania

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OTHER REASONS?

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The Spanish-American War, 1898-99

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: $3 billion

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$27 million

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$27 million

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British Blockade U-Boat Blockade

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Undeclared submarine warfare 2:11

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OPPOSITION

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Traditional Suspicion

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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)

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373-50

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“Dough-boys” 300,000 / 300,000

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“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?”

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1916: >900,000

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APATHY?

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Woodrow Wilson: “Symbolic Politics”

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“Hate the Hun” Campaign

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“Hate the Hun” Campaign

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“Hate the Hun” Campaign

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SAUERKRAUT

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“LIBERTY CABBAGE”

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HAMBURGER

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“LIBERTY STEAK”

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“LIBERTY MEASLES”

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ANTI-RADICAL

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Espionage and Sedition Acts 1917-1918

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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.”

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“RED” EMMA GOLDMAN

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“RED” EMMA GOLDMAN “There Is No Communism in Russia”

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WALTER MATHEY

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Rev. CLARENCE WALDRON

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Rev. CLARENCE WALDRON “A Christian can take no part in the war.”

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Rev. CLARENCE WALDRON → 15 years

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JOHN WHITE

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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.”

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JOHN WHITE → 21 months

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“BIG BILL” HAYWOOD IWW

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“BIG BILL” HAYWOOD → 30 YEARS

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EUGENE DEBS

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EUGENE DEBS “The master class has always declared wars; the subject class has always fought the battles.”

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EUGENE DEBS → 10 YEARS

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“RED(SCARE) SUMMER” 1919

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Strikes, Prohibition, Suffrage, Race Riots, Bombings, Influenza, Disillusionment

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“The Flu Felt Around the World” (2018) 10:00

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Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer

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Palmer R a i d s

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(1:38) Palmer R a i d s

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(1:38) Palmer R a i d s

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“[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