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Compare the Red Scare of 1919 and McCarthyism of the 1950s.

Both were anti-communist waves in the US, but they occurred in different contexts and had different targets.

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Compare the Red Scare of 1919 and McCarthyism of the 1950s.
Both were anti-communist waves in the US, but they occurred in different contexts and had different targets.
Compare the impact of WWI on civil liberties to other wartime periods.
Wars often lead to limitations on civil liberties in the US, but the specific measures and their severity vary.
What is Xenophobia?
Fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners.
What is the 'clear and present danger' doctrine?
A limit on free speech; speech is not protected if it presents a clear and present danger to the public.
Define the Espionage Act of 1917.
Act punishing aiding the enemy, obstructing recruitment, or encouraging disloyalty.
Define the Sedition Act.
Act punishing disloyal language about the government, flag, or military.
What was the Committee on Public Information (CPI)?
The main US propaganda agency during WWI.
What was the War Industries Board?
Wartime agency that set production priorities and controlled raw materials.
What was the Food Administration?
Wartime agency that encouraged food conservation for overseas shipment.
What was the National War Labor Board?
Wartime agency that arbitrated labor disputes and improved worker conditions.
What is the Great Migration?
The movement of African Americans from the South to northern cities for jobs.
What was the Red Scare?
Post-WWI anti-communist wave in the US, fueled by the Bolshevik Revolution.
What were the causes and effects of anti-German sentiment during WWI?
Cause: High immigration from Central Powers. Effects: Cultural changes, violence, repression.
What were the causes and effects of the Espionage and Sedition Acts?
Cause: Wilson administration's desire to suppress dissent. Effect: Limited civil liberties, imprisonment of dissenters like Debs.
What were the causes and effects of WWI propaganda?
Cause: US government's need to promote pro-war and anti-German sentiment. Effect: Shaping public opinion, emotional appeals.
What were the causes and effects of the Great Migration?
Causes: Increased demand for labor in northern cities, escape from racial terrorism in the South. Effects: Shift in demographics, less segregation but continued discrimination.
What were the causes and effects of the Red Scare?
Causes: Bolshevik Revolution, fear of communists and immigrants. Effects: Palmer Raids, violation of civil liberties.
What was the cause and effect of the Supreme Court case Schenck v. United States?
Cause: Socialist distributing anti-draft leaflets. Effect: Established the 'clear and present danger' doctrine, limiting free speech.
What were the causes and effects of wartime hysteria?
Cause: War time. Effect: Civil rights abuses.
What were the causes and effects of increased demand for war production?
Cause: WWI. Effect: Urbanization.
What were the causes and effects of factories needing more workers?
Cause: WWI. Effect: Hiring more women and African Americans.
What were the causes and effects of the Wilson administration creating temporary wartime agencies?
Cause: WWI. Effect: War Industries Board, Food Administration, National War Labor Board.