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620-626 - Analyze primary sources about the League of Nations. - Describe the challenges and problems facing the United States following World War I. Quiz. FRONT. Strongly Against. Strongly in Favor. League of Nations.

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  1. 620-626 - Analyze primary sources about the League of Nations. - Describe the challenges and problems facing the United States following World War I.

  2. Quiz

  3. FRONT Strongly Against Strongly in Favor League of Nations Mixed – “on the fence”

  4. Post-War Problems Facing the U.S. • Battle over the League of Nations • Public favored support of Wilson’s idea. • Senate opposed support • Henry Cabot Lodge led the Reservationists. • Robert LaFollette and Hiram Johnson led Irreconcilables. • Senate defeated treaty 3/19/20.

  5. Post-War Problems Facing the U.S. • Influenza epidemic

  6. Post-War Problems Facing the U.S. • Influenza epidemic • Rapid demobilization of troops/economy ex. 1/1919 Baruch abolishes WIB • Increasing unemployment and inflation • Women lost their high paying war jobs • Race relations worsened • ex. W.E.B. DuBois ex. 1919 Chicago

  7. Post-War Problems Facing the U.S. • Race relations worsened • W.E.B. DuBois • 1919 Chicago • Labor unrest caused strikes nationwide in 1919 • Pennsylvania AFL steelworkers • A.G. Palmer used “injunction” to stop coal strike • Gov. Calvin Coolidge Boston Police Strike • Seattle shipyard “Central Labor Council” went on strike

  8. Post-War Problems Facing the U.S. • Labor unrest caused strikes nationwide in 1919 • Pennsylvania AFL steelworkers • A.G. Palmer used “injunction” to stop coal strike • Gov. Calvin Coolidge Boston Police Strike • Seattle shipyard “Central Labor Council” went on strike • The Red Scare • Caused due to the fear of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia will spread to America!

  9. “Red Scare” – Palmer Raids • A.G. Palmer • created a new • agency in the • Justice Dept. • headed by • J. Edgar Hoover • to suppress • radicals. Police Arrest “Suspected Reds’ in Chicago, 1920

  10. IWW Office after a “Palmer Raid”

  11. (Referring to Palmer Raids)

  12. Threat of the Red Scare

  13. The Election of 1920 • Warren Harding/Calvin Coolidge (R) • promised a return to “normalcy” • James Cox/(FDR) (D) • lost the election due to Americans anger over the World War I involvement. 16 million vs. 9 million votes!!

  14. The 1920 Election

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