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maxush-WWI Impact
Question | Answer |
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prices for food, shelter , clothing, and other essentials increased during World War One | cost of living |
More organized and included more members during the war, business leaders wanted to break up | union |
strike that involves all the workers in a particular location, used in Europe by communists | general strike |
Governor of Massachusetts, fires striking police officers | Calvin Coolidge |
attempt to organize 350,000 workers for more pay fewer hours, fails, sets union back | steelworkers |
As soldiers return from Europe creates competition for jobs in northern cities, turns violent when neighborhoods attack each other | race riots |
nationwide panic about communists taking over in the US | Red Scare |
US Attorney General targeted by postal bomb, orders deportation of immigrants | A. Mitchell Palmer |
leads General Intelligence Division in rounding up radicals | J. Edgar Hoover |
raids on radical organizations, rounding up immigrant members and deporting without due process | Palmer Raids |
expelled from a country | deport |
winner of the election of 1920 on a promise to return to earlier way of life | Warren G. Harding |
refers to simpler life before the war | normalcy |