march 18, 2014 aim: what were the effects of wwi on the u.s.?
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March 18, 2014 Aim: What were the effects of WWI on the U.S.?. Do Now: How does this cartoon depict U.S. foreign policy after WWI?. Reparations and War Debts. European allies borrowed a great deal of money from the U.S. to buy war supplies. Dawes Plan (1924). The First Red Scare, 1918-1919. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
March 18, 2014Aim: What were the effects of WWI on the U.S.?
• Do Now: How does this cartoon depict U.S. foreign policy after WWI?
Reparations and War Debts
• European allies borrowed a great deal of money from the U.S. to buy war supplies.
Dawes Plan (1924)
U.S. Loans $$ to Germany
Germany pays reparations to
Allies
Allies pay war debt to U.S.
The First Red Scare, 1918-1919
• Bolshevik (communist) revolution in Russia.• Fear of communism, socialists, anarchists,
immigrants, labor leaders.
First Great Migration – 1918-1930
• African Americans migrate North to find industrial work and freedom.
• http://ashp.cuny.edu/ashp-documentaries/up-south/
• Why did many African Americans leave the South and move North?
• What was it like in the North for African Americans?
• Why did racial tensions rise right after WWI?