WHAT ARE THE EFFECTS OF WWI?

WHAT HAPPENED TO WOMEN AFTER THE WAR?

• Women were back to having pre-war "women's work"
• Women also faced the assumption of "a woman's place is in the home."
• Before this, many women had contributed to taking on a man's job
• Men had now been returning from the war at this time
• Women were back to having old jobs as nurses, teachers, etc.

WHAT HAPPENED TO AFRICAN-AMERICANS AFTER THE WAR?

• Africans faced little change after the war
• Racial conditions failed to improve significantly, such as race riots and lynchings
• African-Americans had believed that they would be recognized for fighting in the war
• "We saved it in France, and by the Great Jehovah, we will save it in the United States of America."-W.E.B Du Bois "Returning Soldiers"
• However, many African Americans were brought into the army by military service

WHAT WAS THE INFLUENZA EPIDEMIC?

• Summer of 1918 a severe form of influenza appeared enexpectedly
• This was known as either the "Spanish Flu" or "La Grippe"
• The outbreak began in spring 1918, mild at first but then grew severe in the summer
• Began in Spain at first, then Germany, Hungary, France, and reached to the Atlantic and U.S.
• It was known to kill more people than the war, at about 20 and 4o million people

WHAT WAS INFLATION?

• Inflation- increase in prices(usually caused by war)
• Caused by an increase in the nation's money supply
• Demand was high, but supply was low
• Workers had to abandon their jobs because of the shift
• People hoarded goods, assuming prices would go up(caused shortages)

WHAT WAS THE RED SCARE?

• Red Scare- nation wide fear of communists, anarchists, socialists, etc
• Palmer Raids- mass arrests of communists and anarchists
• Named after US General Alexander Mitchell Palmer
• Started the belief that communists were responsible for American social issues
• Communists and anarchists were held without trial

WHAT WAS THE RED SCARE? (CONT.)

• Bombs were mailed as threats to U.S. Officials by American anarchists
• Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti- Italian immigrants, anarchists and socialists
• Accused and arrested for the murder of two employees of a shoe warehouse
• Sacco and Vanzetti maintained their innocence, but were found guilty
• Both men were executed, but many protest today of their innocence and guilt

WHAT WAS AMERICA'S ROLE IN WORLD AFFAIRS?

• The U.S. had became a creditor nation
• Creditor nation- country that had

RESOURCES AND BIBLIOGRAPHY

• virus.stanford.edu/uda/
• www.ushistory.org/us/47a.asp
• exhibitions.nypl.org/africanaage/essay-world-
• Arnesen, Eric ed. Black Protest and the Great Migration: A Brief History with Documents. Boston: Bedford/St. Martin's, 2003.
• Levering Lewis, David. W. E. B. Du Bois: Biography of a Race, 1868-1919. New York: Henry Holt, 1994.