Fear and Paranoia in the Post WWI Era. The legacy of WWI

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Fear and Paranoia in the Post WWI Era

The legacy of WWI

Racial violence continues

The Red Scare of 1919-1920 Bolsheviks (Communists) took

over in Russia in November, 1917

The Government Fights Back

Palmer Raids

Nativism

National Origins Act of 1924:

The return of the KKK Reborn in 1915 in Stone

Mountain, Georgia; expands in the 1920s

The case of Sacco and Vanzetti http://writing.upenn.edu/~afilreis/88/sa

cvan.html http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/

USAsacco.htm http://thephoenix.com/boston/news/

46042-replaying-injustice/ http://www.americanheritage.com/

articles/web/20070823-sacco-vanzetti-anarchist-criminal-capital-punishment.shtml

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