HISTORY 1DD3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: William Sims, Stock Market, Wage War
22 Oct 2017
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Comprehensive exam: 5/11/17: wage war against u. s, receive german $ and military aid. U. s. infuriated: arm cargo liners, u. s. navy protect ships. Admiral william sims implements convoy system: russian revolution. War between democratic nations and non-democratic ones: make world safe for democracy, later overthrown by bolsheviks. Withdraw from war: march 1918, germany seeks to end war. Upheaval following wwi (3 things cause unrest and 2 things led to: labor strife. Corporations: try to take back wartime concessions after war. Workers: want to keep improved wages/hours, 4 million workers strike (1919) Boston police strike (1919: rioting, looting, violence, gov. of ma calvin coolidge. Unsuccessful strikes: steel and coal industries. Unions decline: anti-union sentiment, membership declines, 1921 5 million in unions, 1929 4. 3 million, number of factory workers increased 7 million, racial strife. Fear competition for jobs: race riots. Chicago riot: starts over altercation at beach, 6 days of violence, bomb scares. Targets: politicians, wealthy, powerful, opponents of radicals, red scare.
