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Conflict in the 1920s. Communism. Revolution leads Lenin and Bolsheviks to control Russia Communist ideals include: Govt owned land Single party No individual rights Stir up communism elsewhere. Red Scare in America. Intense fear of communists in America
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Communism • Revolution leads Lenin and Bolsheviks to control Russia • Communist ideals include: • Govt owned land • Single party • No individual rights • Stir up communism elsewhere
Red Scare in America • Intense fear of communists in America • US government began a campaign to root out groups seen as “clear and present danger”
Anarchists- oppose all government (many were immigrants) • Plot to bomb 36 figures/houses uncovered by police (by suspected radicals) • JP Morgan, Rockerfeller, AG Mitchell • Palmer Raids (AG Mitchell Palmer)- arrest subversives
Thousands arrested; many were immigrants • 500+ deported without being charged • Public officials expelled!! (New York communists)
Sacco and Vanzetti • April, 1920 a paymaster at a shoe factory was robbed and killed • Italian immigrants (Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco) arrested- carrying same gun used in crime • Found guilty despite no real evidence-executed in 1927 • Trial seen as unfair (read 343)