6.4 The War’s Impact
Follow along in your notes from chapter 6 and write down anything new you learn from the video in your notes
Review Videos
America on the Western Front
Wilson’s 14 Points
35,000 shipyard workers demand higher wages and shorter hours
“General Strike” involves all workers living in a certain location, not just workers in a particular industry
Seattle Strike involved more than 60,000 people
General Strike was common in Europe by communists and other radical
Seattle General Strike
Companies forced to raise wages during the war (National War Labor Board)
During the workers in labor unions increase Big business determined to break union
power 1919 - 3,600 strikes
Inflation Leads to Strikes
1919, Boston MA 75% of the police force walked off the job Riots and looting erupted – Calving Coolidge
called the National Guard
“There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, anytime.”
The Boston Police Strike
350,000 steelworkers went on strike for higher pay, shorter hours and recognition of their labor union
Elbert H. Gary, the head of U.S. Steel, refused to talk to union
Tried to break the union by using anti-immigrant feelings to divide the workers
Many steel workers were immigrants◦ Companies hired African Americans and Mexicans
as replacement workers
The Steel Strike
Hundreds of thousands of soldiers Competed with African Americans who had
moved north during the war 1919, over 20 race riots broke out across the
nation
Racial Unrest
What were the major reasons for the race riots?
Who is the man smashing the black rioter and white together?
Quickwrite
Wave of strikes in 1919 fueled fears that Communists were conspiring to start a revolution
Americans were stunned (and scarred) when Lenin and the Bolsheviks seized power
Americans became anti-German as the war progressed
American anger at Germany expanded to anger at Communist
The Red Scare
Red Scare: Americans feared Communists, or “reds” as they were called, might seize power
April of 1919 the postal service incepted 30 parcels addressed to leading businessman and politicians with bombs in them
A Mitchell Palmer, U.S. Attorney General◦ Believed the bombings were the work of
Communists or other revolutionaries trying to destroy “American” way of life
The Red Scare
J. Edgar Hoover appointed head of the Justice Department, the General Intelligence Division
J. Edgar Hoover later became the director of the FBI
Series of raids rounded up and deported (expelled from the country) Americans
The Palmer Raids
Political Cartoons
On page ? of your note book draw a political cartoon of the “Red Scare”◦ Remember what the reasons for social unrest
were◦ Remember the postal parcels bombs◦ Remember the Palmer Raids
Your turn