Write my essay on World War 1

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Were Wilson’s arguments about democracy and self-determination put into practice inside and outside of the United States during/after World War I? Include Work Citied from Each Source Provided.

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232 AMERICA AND THE GREAT WAR 21.6. A. MITCHELL PALMER, EXCERPTS FROM "THE CASE AGAINST THE REDS: (1920) Following Germany's defeat in November 1918, much of the hostility directed toward alleged pro­ German Americans was redirected against radical labor organizers and others accused of being agents of the Bolshevik, or communist, regime in Russia. Attorney General A Mitchell Palmer pub­ lished this article in 1920 to justify his order to arrest and deport thousands of resident aliens and naturalized citizens in the so-called Palmer Raids of 1919-1920. Note his appeal to anti-Semitism by referring to Bolshevik leader Leon Trotsky by his original name, Leon Bronstein, and mentioning that he once lived in New York City's Lower East Side, a Jewish neighborhood. Like a prairie-fire, the blaze of revolution was sweeping over every American institution of law and order a year ago. It was eating its way into the homes of the American workmen, its sharp tongues of revolutionary heat were licking the altars of the churches, leaping into the belfry of the school bell, crawling into the sacred comers of American homes, seeking to replace marriage vows with libertine laws, burning up the foundations of society. Robbery, not war, is the ideal of communism. This has been demonstrated in Russia, Germany, and in America. As a foe, the anarchist is fearless of his own life, for his creed is a fanaticism that admits no respect of any other creed. Obviously it is the creed of any criminal mind, which reasons always from motives impossible to clean thought. Crime is the degenerate factor in society. The whole mass of evidence, accumulated from all parts of the country, was scrupulously scanned, not merely for the written or spoken differences of viewpoint as to the Government of the United States, but, in spite of these things, to see if the hostile declarations might not be sincere in their announced motive to improve our social order. There was no hope of such a thing. By stealing, murder and lies, Bolshevism has looted Russia not only ofits material strength but of its moral force. A small clique of outcasts from the East Side of New York has attempted this, with what success we Source: A. Mitchell Palmer, ''The Case Against the 'Reds:" Forum 63 (1920): 173-85. stein, th inaugun the Kren NewY01 of thou: should, Sucl one ans· My country who wi missha1 ter, anc glitteriI racy to peasan upwarc Trotz!
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