Causes, Opposition to the war, Anti-German Hun Campaign, Anti-Radical, Sedition Act, aftermath, A. Mitchell Palmer, Red Scare

1. World War I
& the Red Scare

3. TRIPLE
ALLIANCE
TRIPLE
ENTENTE

4. CENTRAL
POWERS
ALLIED
POWERS

5. 1914 - 1918

6. APRIL 6th, 1917

7. Knightsbridge, 1919

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

9. Why did the United States
ente…on the side of Great
Britain and the Allies?

10. Standard View
The Lusitania

11. deaths = 1198

12. deaths = 1128

13. 4,200,000

14. OTHER REASONS?

15. 1) Cultural Ties

16. 80%

17. 2) Enhanced U.S.
World Role

18. 3) Economic

19. 4x

20. 1914: $753 million

21. 1916: $3 billion

22. $2.3 billion
$27 million

23. 4) Practicalities of
Naval Warfare

24. British Blockade
U-Boat Blockade

25. “rules of war”

26. Undeclared
submarine warfare

27. OPPOSITION

28. Traditional Suspicion

29. 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)

30. Congress
373-50

31. “Dough-boys”
300,000 / 300,000

32. Farmers

33. “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?”

34. Socialists
1920: >900,000

35. Immigrants

36. Immigrants

37. APATHY?

38. “Symbolic Politics”

39. Good vs Evil

40. “Hate the Hun Campaign”

45. SAUERKRAUT

46. “LIBERTY
CABBAGE”

47. HAMBURGER

48. “LIBERTY
STEAK”

49. “LIBERTY
MEASLES”

51. ANTI-RADICAL

52. Espionage and
Sedition Acts
“conduct or speech inciting people to
rebel against the authority of a state”

53. 6000 / 1500

54. “RED” EMMA GOLDMAN

55. 2 years >>>

56. WALTER MATHEY

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

59. Rev. CLARENCE WALDRON
> 15 years

60. JOHN WHITE

61. 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.”

62. JOHN WHITE
> 21 months

63. “BIG BILL”
HAYWOOD >>> IWW

64. “BIG BILL”
HAYWOOD >>> 30 YEARS

66. “RED (SCARE)
SUMMER”
1919

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

69. Attorney General
A. Mitchell Palmer

72. “[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.”
“Palmer Raids” January, 1920

73. May 1st, 1920?

74. May 1st, 1920.