Ch. 20 Sec. 1 Critical Thinking #3

Do you think Americans were justified in their fear of radicals and foreigners in the decade following WWI?

-goals of leaders of Russian Revolution
-challenges facing U.S.

The Americans were justified in their fear of the radicals and foreigners following WWI. Communism was rising in Russia. Communism was a radical form of government which really came into play when revolutionaries overthrew the czar, Vladmir Lenin and the Bolsheviks established a new communist state called the Soviet Union. The U.S. was in the midst of being influenced by the Ku Klux Klan, which was a radical group, who hated everyone except middle aged white males. Thousands of people flocked to join this group, that marched up and down the road next to the capital and White House. The country was also having trouble keeping the amount of immigrants down, until Congress passed the Quota system, which limited the amount of immigrants allowed to enter the U.S. The immigrants were forming communist parties in the U.S. which threatened to take over the government if it got to strong.