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?

Chicago Race Riots - 1919