History
- Created by: laura.hingston
- Created on: 10-05-19 09:55
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- What influenced the political landscape?
- The First Red Scare, 1919 - 1920
- 1905 to 1017, Russia went through a series of revolutions.
- The monarchy was toppled and replaced by a communist gov.
- During WW1 workers in the USA had not gone on strike over wages, hours or working conditions, when post-war conditions didn't improve, they went on strike
- The Communist party of America was founded and anarchists distributed pamphlets in many cities, urging a revolution.
- 1919 saw more than 3,600 strikes, with one in four workers on strike.
- On January the 21st 1919 35,000 shipyard workers went on strike in Seattle
- On February 6th, this escalated to a general strike of 60,000 people.
- Police and strikers did not clash, but rumours of a communist revolution spread, the strikes became national news.
- On February 6th, this escalated to a general strike of 60,000 people.
- On January the 21st 1919 35,000 shipyard workers went on strike in Seattle
- 1905 to 1017, Russia went through a series of revolutions.
- The First Red Scare, 1919 - 1920
- This made people in the Capitalist USA concerned, especially when workers went on strike in large numbers.
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