Monday December 5

[8Brittany]

Assigned blog this week is my side(closes to door) has to pick a topic from ch. 12, the other side a topic from ch.13. We have a sub today so we work on our assigned blog.My topic is the Red Scare.Source 1: The Americans Reconstruction to the 21st Century (book)*revolutionaries in Russia overthrew the czarist regime.*Vladimir I. Lenin & followers(Bolshiviks)-(majority) established new Communist State.* causing panic in the US(began in 1919)*sybolic red flag*Communist(Reds) cried out for worldwide revolution the would abolish capitalism everywhere*Communist Party formed in US.*70,000 radicals joined*including Industrial Workers of the World(IWW)*dozens of bombs were mailed to gov. & business leaders*public grew fearful that Communist were taking over*US Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer took action to combat this "Red Scare"*A Mitchell Palmer, "The blaze of revolution was sweeping over every American institution of law &order....eating its way into the homes of the American workman, its sharp tongues of revolutionaryheat...licking the altars of the churches, leaping into the belfry of the school bell, crawling into thesacred corners of American homes,...burning up the foundations of society." -"The Case Againstthe Reds"Source 2: http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h1343.html* end of fighting did not bring peace* hatred of "Huns" was replaced by fear of anarchists, communists and immigrants* word "Red" is associated with communist or socialist* word "White" is associated with conservatives* control of Russia was contested between the Red Army of Bolshiviks & other various white armies* The entire prospect of growing Communist influence became known as the "Red Menace."