The Transition to Peace: 1919-1921

After World War I, the U.S. faced hard economic times and problems over labor, race and reintegration of veterans.

Postwar patriotism and fears of communism after the Russian Revolution produced the Red Scare in the U.S. in 1919-1920.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the Mexican population in the U.S. grew and African-Americans migrated to the North.

Numerous examples of postwar racial friction sparked by Nativism and the Great Migration reached a peak in the 1919 Red Summer.

The Spanish Flu of 1918 was a global influenza pandemic that killed millions more people than the Great War.