Assigned Blog 7-Post WWI

[4Chancey]

While America was only involved in WWI for one year, the results were not the same as the Mexican-American war, which was called a "happy little war", for a few reasons: 1. we didn't get any land out of it. 2. it weakened our econemy. 3. it costs more and had more casualties.Soldiers who survived the war came home to discover that their jobs had been taken by minorites or women. So they either had to get their job back or find a new one, and with the cost of living being doubled, it was a little tough. Also, farmers and factory workers found themselves in a fix as wartime orders dropped over the years of 1917 and 1918, and plummeted as the war ended.Due to all of this, the nation started a sort of new craze: fearing other countries. Predjudice over foreigners increased, known as navitism. Isolationism also came about, which is a feeling of wanting to pull away from foreign affairs.Here is a picture of a sign from around that time: http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Nativism&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=617&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=HgdOkcEjdZXlIM:&imgrefurl=http://wa8.wikispaces.com/Nativism&docid=O0yPRkFB54kTwM&imgurl=http://wa8.wikispaces.com/file/view/nativism.jpg/254529948/nativism.jpg&w=500&h=400&ei=WezcTtW8MYHs2AWDk-jlDg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=939&vpy=196&dur=1436&hovh=201&hovw=251&tx=167&ty=81&sig=110183249208884898183&page=1&tbnh=121&tbnw=142&start=0&ndsp=22&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0Right after the war was over, the Paris Peace Conference of 1919 gave both Japan and the United States at the top, being a victorious power. The UK, France, and Italy were successful as well, but not quite as successful as the two above. However, from this also, the Ottoman and Austria-Hungary empires were dissolved. But things would only get worse.The American Expeditionary Forces returned from France in 1920 and was demobilized. And with the National Defense Act, the size of the army was reduced to numbers that were seen last at the beginning of the war. This left American unrestful, with riots and chaos and madness being the results from all of this disorder.Here is a picture of the result of a riot: http://www.google.com/imgres?q=Riot+1920&hl=en&biw=1280&bih=617&gbv=2&tbm=isch&tbnid=2TqcjHeEl5mkqM:&imgrefurl=http://theomahaproject.org/module_display.php%3Fmod_id%3D101%26review%3Dyes&docid=PIsWUjRE7OnzdM&imgurl=http://bss.sfsu.edu/tygiel/Hist427/1919Photos/neblynching.jpg&w=530&h=390&ei=v-7cTqz1AZLq2wX1v_HNDg&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=178&vpy=264&dur=844&hovh=193&hovw=262&tx=141&ty=122&sig=110183249208884898183&page=1&tbnh=131&tbnw=182&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:6,s:0

[Mr. Bruns]

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