HIST 2112 1st edition Lecture 16Outline of Previous LectureI. Spanish and American WarII. Places America wanted to expand toIII. World War IOutline of Current Lecture I. A very brief reference to the Great War, and a Couple of Key PointsII. The Antiwar Movement in World War IIII. The Reaction to Antiwar ActivitiesIV. The Red ScareV. The 1920s – the end of Progressivism and the rise of the “consumer society”Current Lecture I. A very brief reference to the Great War, and a Couple of Key Points It’s the biggest war in human history until this time The Great Migration Woodrow Wilsono Comes up with the plan the 14 points Sets up the League of Nationso When he gets to Europe, British and the French were the victors, and they wanted to punish the Germans Versailles Treaty Decline of ProgressivismII. The Antiwar Movement in World War I Germans and immigrants were discriminated against Progressive doubterso Wanted to help the unfortunate, assimilating the waro Mainly womeno Some progressive reformers were for the war but there were those who were against it Jane Addams and Women’s Peace PartyThese notes represent a detailed interpretation of the professor’s lecture. GradeBuddy is best used as a supplement to your own notes, not as a substitute. Alice Paul Isolationists and Anti-Imperialistso Opposed to the Spanish-American Waro Not get involved in foreign entanglementso A lot of populist and labor people have this viewo William Jennings Bryan – represented the populists and the democratic party in an election Labor Protestorso The Wobblies (IWW) were intensely antiwaro The war helped to raise the wages during the waro Wages, prices, and labor unresto Socialists, communists, etc Eugene V. Debs- President of the Railroad UnionIII. The Reaction to Antiwar Activities Anti-German feelings and “nativism”o The American Protective League Assist in monitoring antiwar movement US Legislative/executive reactionso Post Office censorship, 1917o Trading with The Enemy Act of 1917 All foreign newspapers must submit the paper to the censorship before they can send it out People cannot express themselves because they don’t have the money to translate their newspapers into English and then submit it to the censorshipo The Committee on Public Information Would keep up support for the waro Two Biggies Government being caught up in the war The Espionage Act of 1917- Imposed prison sentences or fines up to $10,000- They were accused of inhibiting the war movemento People complaining- 6,000 were allegedly charged The Sedition Act of 1918- Punishments for anyone using disloyal, profane,or abusive language about the government, theflag, or the war- No one can complain about the government because it is illegal- People get arrested for laughing at soldiers for messing up on the drill field or being rude to Red Cross Workers- The Sedition act is repealed in 1920 Supreme Court Reactionso Antiwar protestors passed literature around opposing the war, the government takes them to court and wins in all three cases Schenk vs. United States (1919) Abrams vs. United States (1919) Pierce vs. United States (1920)IV. The Red Scare Letter bombs mailed to thirty high ranking government officialso Mainly anticommunists government officials A Mitchell Palmer, J. Edgar Hoover and the “Radical Division”o Palmer and Hoover go after radicals and they deport them to Russia The “Red Ark” deportations January 1920 – the “Palmer Raids” arrest some 10,000 peopleo About 6,500 of those people were grabbed accidentally they had to be let goo The rest of the people were held in prison to rot Mitchell’s May Day warnings and the end of the Scareo Mitchell claimed there would be a massive communist uprising, when the time comes nothing happensV. The 1920s – the end of Progressivism and the rise of the “consumer
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