Post-WWI America
This war’s end caused the United States to rethink its global role.
What is World War I?
Russia was ruled by this leader before the revolution.
Who is Czar Nicholas II?
In the 1920s, the U.S. tried to avoid involvement in foreign conflicts.
What is isolationism?
The movement of African Americans from the South to northern and western cities.
What is the Great Migration?
The Red Scare was fear of this political idea spreading to the U.S.
What is communism?
The U.S. refused to join this international organization after the war.
What is the League of Nations?
The group that overthrew the government during the revolution.
What are the Bolsheviks?
Congress passed laws in 1921 and 1924 that did this to immigration.
What is limiting/setting quotas?
African Americans moved north mainly for these two opportunities.
What are economic and social opportunities?
The scare was triggered partly by mailed packages containing this.
What are bombs?
This president proposed joining the League of Nations.
Who is Woodrow Wilson?
Leader of the Bolsheviks.
Who is Vladimir Lenin?
These immigrants were especially restricted: people from this part of Europe.
What is southern and eastern Europe?
Name one northern city many migrants moved to.
What is Chicago, Pittsburgh, or Detroit?
Attorney General who led mass arrests of suspected radicals.
Who is A. Mitchell Palmer?
This treaty punished Germany with harsh reparations after WWI.
What is the Treaty of Versailles?
Russia became known by this new name under communist rule.
What is the Soviet Union (USSR)?
Some Americans feared immigrants were taking these away.
What are jobs?
This hate group expanded in the 1920s and targeted multiple groups.
What is the Ku Klux Klan?
These raids arrested about 5,000 people.
What are the Palmer Raids?
This 1920 president promised a “return to normalcy.”
Who is Warren G. Harding?
Economic system based on community ownership of property and industry
What is communism?
Isolationism was influenced by memories of losses and broken promises from this war.
What is World War I?
This 1921 event destroyed the Black Wall Street neighborhood.
What is the Tulsa Massacre?
These two immigrants became symbols of tensions over radicalism and immigration.
Who are Sacco and Vanzetti?