Section 7
The Transition to Peace: 1919-1921
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Economic Hardship and Labor Upheaval During the Transition to Peace
After World War I, the U.S. faced hard economic times and problems over labor, race and reintegration of veterans.
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Red Scare
Postwar patriotism and fears of communism after the Russian Revolution produced the Red Scare in the U.S. in 1919-1920.
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Changing Demographics
In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Mexican population in the U.S. grew and African-Americans migrated to the North.
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Racial Friction
Numerous examples of postwar racial friction sparked by Nativism and the Great Migration reached a peak in the 1919 Red Summer.
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The Spanish Flu
The Spanish Flu of 1918 was a global influenza pandemic that killed millions more people than the Great War.