Domestic

Question 1

Communism

Answer 1

• the Russian Revolution created the first Communist state and Americans began to fear those ideas
• communism favors the poor, which America has many of
• the Red Scare was an event where 34 bombs were mailed to government officials but were found before going off, & immigrants began to get deported, particulary ones from Eastern Europe in fear that they would overthrow the US gov

Question 2

African Americans

Answer 2

Great Migration: moved north west to escape Southern discrimination & secured ww1 jobs

Question 3

Economy

Answer 3

Making huge profits from war, challenging labor activists

Question 4

Armenia

Answer 4

“Young Turks” wanted to make everyone in the Ottoman Empire Turkish and said that the Armenians were siding with Russia during ww1 but were more likely just targeting non-islamic Armenians
Armenian Genocide: going city-from-city gathering Armenians and forcing them to march, treating them very poorly, and then blaming deaths on them not being able to handle the journey

Question 5

Government

Answer 5

• Liberty Bonds, funded the war (if u bought for $10 now, you’d get $20 back)
• Sedition Act
• Espionage Act
• Gov encouraging Mexican migration for workers

Question 6

Sedition Act

Answer 6

if you harm the US’s chances in war or prevent the military from waging war
ex: preventing someone from buying a liberty bond, protesting a wartime president

Question 7

Espionage Act

Answer 7

if you help the enemy
ex: giving hand drawn maps of the US to the Germans

Question 8

Women

Answer 8

Nurses & wartime jobs

Question 9

Business

Answer 9

Limited resources during war, are you gonna make guns or butter (aka domestic goods)? Guns to win, factories transitioned to making guns instead of “butter” for the war

Question 10

Urban vs. Rural

Answer 10

city had the wartime jobs