Postwar Unrest

(Period: War, Prosperity and Depression)

Synopsis:

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Historical synopsis courtesy of A Hypertext on American History from the colonial period until Modern Times by Department of Humanities Computing, University of Groningen, The Netherlands and the former United States Information Agency (1953-1999).

Key Facts:

• in 1919, over 4 million workers went on strike, unhappy with labor conditions despite the immediate but short-lived boom that followed the war.

Vocabulary:

• tumultuous - disruptive
• Red Scare - period of strong anti-Communism in the United States: the First Red Scare was from 1917 to 1920