After The War

Conflicts at Home and Abroad

Conflicts at Home and Abroad

The Allied victory in World War I did not put an end to conflict either at home or abroad. European hostility to Wilson’s peace plan was matched by domestic hostility due to economic issues and other problems.

• Opposition to Peace PlanCause: Wilson wanted acceptance of Fourteen

Points, League of Nations; European allies wanted to punish Germany, divide up conquered lands among conquerors; Senate did not want entanglement in League of Nations

Results: no one satisfied in Europe and Senate rejected treaty

• Economic Downturn

Cause: demobilization, conversion to peacetime economy, inflation plagues Americans

Results: business activity slows, farmers especially hurt

• Red Scare

Cause: Russian Revolution, fear of foreigners

Results: deportation, imprisonment of many immigrants; new racial tensions arise

• Labor Unrest

Causes: Unions struck for higher wages denied them during war

Results: management fought with strikebreaking methods, violence, lower wages