US History › Section L · The Great War and the 1920s › Topic L.4
Peace, the League debate, and demobilization
American troops helped end the war in 1918, but winning the peace proved harder. Wilson's League of Nations failed in the Senate, and at home a deadly pandemic, strikes, race riots and a Red Scare made 1919 one of the most turbulent years in the nation's history.
In this topic
- Arriving just in time
- Americans in battle
- The Fourteen Points
- The Paris Peace Conference
- Worked example: why the Senate rejected the treaty
- The influenza pandemic
- Strikes and inflation
- Red Summer and Tulsa
- Worked example: the Red Scare
- A return to "normalcy"
- Common mistakes to avoid
- Key takeaways
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