US Terror Episodes Since 1900

Specific Events	Seattle General Strike required troops to maintain order during a 5-day city paralysis. Boston Police Strike had State Guard limit damage during two nights of violence. Steel Strike government supported Steel Industry. Race Riots killed 165+. Anarchist Bombings terrorized two cities. Relevant Videos	1946 Churchill's Iron Curtain speech 1948 Berlin Blockade pits US and USSR 1950 McCarthyism hits many as Communist 1950 Failed assassination by two foreign nationals 1951 MacArthur fired for nuclear weapons talk 1954 Army-McCarthy hearings ends scare	1961 Berlin Wall Built 1962 Church Bombing 4 children die 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis 1963-JK, MLK, RK assassinated 1965 Malcolm X Assassinated 1965 Watts Riot 34 rioters killed 1970 Kent State 4 students killed	1951 Iranian Coup sponsored by U.S. 2000 Millennium Change apprehension 2001 9/11 largest recent Terror attack 2003 US Iraq begins a long malaise 2007 The Great Recession 2010 Synthetic Life means a Brave New World
Media Response	Print and Video Coverage was pro-business, against both labor unions and Communists Anarchist.	Government Creates Fear with Media Media Aided McCarthyism and then Buried It	Coverage Differed for Race vs. War As Compared to Ferguson	Online Media create user based content Coverage terrorism, foreign policy replaced drugs, crime and tech/space
Political Response	1918 Sedition Act to protect wartime morale by deporting putatively undesirable foreigners. Palmer Raids had U.S. Attorney General targeting left-leaning Communist labor agitating immigrants by arresting 10,000, jailing 3,500 and deporting 556 resident aliens. "C riminal Syndicalism" state laws outlawing advocacy of violence in effecting and securing social change. Source	1947 Truman Doctrine to contain Communism. 1947 Taft Hartley Act anti-union regulations 1948 Selective Service Act military draft 1950 McCarran Internal Security Act limits communists 1952 Immigration and Nationality Act limited inflow	1964 Civil Rights Act 1964 N. Mandela gets life 1965 Vietnam Protest Increase 1966 Black Panther Party forms 1971 Twenty sixth Amendment 1973-74 Agnew, Nixon resign	2001 TSA takes over Air Port security 2002 Homeland Security merged 22 agencies 2003 Immigration doubled deportations
Winning Oligarchs	1) Business protected profit from labor 2) Relegion feared atheism of Communism 3) Right Leaning Politicians 4) Law Justice Department, FBI 5) Media circulation means power/money	1-5 business, religion, right leaning politicians, JD/FBI 6) Military Industrial Complex 7) Media add radio	1-7 business, religion, right leaning politicians, JD/FBI, MIC, media 8) Workers were not protected from foreign competition to maintain profit 9) Media add TV	1-7 business, religion, right leaning politicians, JD, FBI, MIC, media 10) Surveillance State takes power and $ 11) Neo-conservatism activist foreign policy 12) Social Media to be determined

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Periods	Post WW1 Red Scare of 1919	Post WW2 Cold War Red Scare	Turmoil 1960 to 1975	Post 9/11 War on Terror
Prelude	Early Labor Gains The 1909 Uprising of 20,000 strike lowered work hours to 48 plus overtime, a 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Fire killed 146 mostly young women and resulted in 8 safety laws, the Ludlow Massacre of 1914 killed 75 and little gain but mine safety improved.	Pro Labor Laws of the 1930's protected worker's union rights, prohibited employers from interfering with legal union activities, required employees be 17, required a minimum wage and overtime over 40 hours per week but not on over an 8 hours day without OT.	Civil Rights Movement Intensifies in 1950's as separate but equal ends, Rosa Park would not go to the back of the bus, and Federal Troops enforce Arkansas integration. 1959 Landrum Griffin Act goes after union corruption.	U.S. and Brittan help over throw Iran's 1951 Democratic Government to control Iran's oil. Carter administration angers conservative Iranian Muslims leading to a 1979-81 hostage crisis. US continuing Support of Israel, Iranian sanctions, and US military in Saudi Arabia
Economy	Post WW1 recession, then better economy. Worker gains were often reversed especially after failure of the 1919 Steel Strike.	Post WW2 Recession and then strong recovery	Long Prosperity Ends with 1972-83 Stagflation caused by 2 oil embargos	Dotcom bubble burst recession ends quickly then Great Recession awakens US to the Stagnate Middle Income.
Causes	Communist International declares world dominance, US Labor Movement joined world-wide populist attempts to increase wages, improved working conditions and limit immigration.	Russia has Atomic Bomb, Hydrogen Bomb US Communist Cells proliferate Communism succeeds in China Korean War resulted when communist aided N. Korea invades S. Korea.	Many Riots for Black Equality and from Anti-Vietnam College Campuses.	Iran Oil Policy by Western Governments Policy Mistakes by Bush2 and Clinton User Generated Content from social media creates Interne Herding