J’Taiya Carr 3/21/16 Chapter 25 REFLECTION PAPER 3 World War I showed new technology and exposed men and women to a new type of brutality. European countries were in a state of disarray and America found itself searching for the meaning of life and happiness. Radical changes will occur in the U.S. involving politics and social ideas. Some people were shedding their old traditional skins to accept the new modern world, while others are trying to hold onto the old ways of the world. The United States was facing varied problems, racism between blacks and whites rose during the famed roaring twenties, and modernism was the new trend. This was America from 1919 to 1929 before its economic downfall. The United States was having varied …show more content…
A reason America disliked immigrants was because anarchism and socialism was associated with them, especially those from countries with failing governments. Stereotypes were common even then. Now, the KKK, which had become very popular in the late 1800’s, found itself with an influx of new members. They called for “100 percent Americanism,” which I am sure appealed to many Americans at the time and only allowed white Protestants to join (794). It is known that the KKK were fundamentalist, many people from the South but also other parts of the country joining. Fundamentalism and Modernists were butting heads at the time, especially with the Scopes Trial/ “Monkey Trial” was in the air. A school teacher, John Scopes taught his students about evolution and was arrested in Tennessee. The attorney defending Scopes was Charles Darrow. William Jennings Bryan, whom had been the Secretary of State, had recently denounced Darwinism due to his firm religious views and supported the prosecution during the Scopes Trial. I believed religion was part of the government a bit too much during these times. It is the same today because we all want a president or government official to have the same belief as we do. This would almost guarantee the laws we want being approved, such as a liberal democrat who support same-sex marriage would be in favor of Hillary Clinton now. I believe Darrow was focused more on whether or
After World War 1, America had to demobilize and revert back to a peace time economy. During the 1920’s, it was viewed as a prosperous economy since there was a new labor force due to demobilization, new inventions, and a new infrastructure. Also moral spirits were high since America along with the Allied Powers defeated Germany and the Great War was finally over. However, America began making many economic policies and decisions that will eventually lead up to the Great Depression.
. World War I had a huge impact still on many people in the 1920’s the writers and philosophers would accept question and ideas about the progress. Many people would have fear that their future would be in trouble about there traditional religious belief. Some of the writers and thinkers were exposed to the anxieties by thinking about the future and what it may hold for them. There was one major man who would be very important his name was T.S. Eliot he would be a major American poet he would live in England, he would have many writings and one of his most famous was The Western society had lost their way in spiritual values. He would be around of the post war and he would barren a “wasteland” drained of hope and the faith of them. There
World War I significantly influenced the modern world in which all humanity subsists. The United States of America was altered internally and externally by the Great War. Shadowing World War I America was distinguished as a supreme nation holding great power; subsequently the nation would be redefined politically, economically, and socially.
As a nation coming out of a devastating war, America faced many changes in the 1920s. It was a decade of growth and improvements. As immigrants fled from Europe, the economy improved, and new machines offered convenience and luxury from the kitchen to the streets. However, with all change comes opposition. The 1920s revealed a conflict between traditional America and the new attitude and lifestyle through the changing role of women, continued dominance of Christian values, and racism.
During the years between 1920 and 1960, America saw change in many aspects of life. The United States was a part of two major wars and a crash of the banking system that crippled the economy greater than ever seen in this country’s history. Also the country had new insecurities to tackle such as immigration and poor treatment of workers. These events led to the change of America lives socially, economically, and politically. The people of America changed their ideas of what the country’s place in the world should be. The issues challenging America led the country to change from isolation to war, depression to prosperity, and social change. The threats to American way of life, foreign and domestic, were the changing forces to the
The 1920s was a major turning point in American history. Known as “the roaring twenties”, the citizens of the United States enjoyed the new found wealth from the economic turnaround. The United States’ wealth more than doubled as the nation turned into a consumer society. Not all Americans were fond of the changes in society, and not all of the changes were good.
The First World War was the fundamental element that led to the economic boom; World War I represented the greatest explosion in investment, production, trade, science and technique in the whole of human history and it put its stamp on political developments in all the different parts of the world. World war I led to a number of things such as the civil rights movement, the economic boom and eventually the great depression both of which made a great impact on America at the time. The economic boom raised a lot of social standings when it came to money but people that grow up with money their whole lives would still look down on them even if they had more than they do. The Civil rights movement during the 1920s made things a lot different for
World War I was a new kind of war. Millions of men were recruited, and millions were killed, wounded, and missing. This changed the lives and roles of each gender, for good and bad. World War I changed the expectations and roles of men at home and on the battlefield. For women, professions, at home and on the frontlines, rights, social behavior, and cultural behavior changed permanently.
World War I changed America greatly. It had an obvious effect on the way we handle business on the home front. Propaganda, rationing, and political views all played a part on American citizens in World War I.
The 1920s was a time of economic growth, inventions, and spending money. During the 1920s, America was renamed as “new society” and “new standard of living” (Foner, 773). Little did society know was that the 1920s was the reason for the Great Depression in the 1929. This time era had a rough start because there was a prohibition on manufacturing and selling alcohol (Foner, 742). There also an awakening of what America was really like for the immigrants, for example, the convictions of two Italians, Bartolomeo Vanzetti and Nicola Sacco. Vanzetti and Sacco were accused of partaking in an armed robbery and murder of a security guard (Foner, 768). This raises about the corruption of the government, and how it destabilized basic American freedom because these men were seen as threats to the American Life (Foner, 769). There were no evidence against Sacco and Vanzetti, yet they still got the death penalty (Foner, 769). The 1920s were also famous for the Jazz Age and Roaring Twenties (Foner, 769, 770). The flappers were women who were young and sexually liberated (Foner, 770). The speakeasies were nightclubs
The American home front during World War II is recalled warmly in popular memory and cultural myth as a time of unprecedented national unity, years in which Americans stuck together in common cause. World War II brought many new ideas and changes to American life. Even though World War II brought no physical destruction to the United States mainland, it did affect American society. Every aspect of American life was altered by U.S. involvement in the war including demographics, the labor force, economics and cultural trends.
Times had changed, the war was over and new technologies were starting to emerge causing people to change their lifestyles. Many people had moved from the farms into the big cities so they could help with the war effort. Millions of immigrants flourished to America. This would mark a new era in American history
World War II (WWII) had an immense effect on the United States; culturally, economically, and industrially. Although no battles were fought on American soil, the war affected all phases of American life. Among the infinite of changes experienced by Americans during this time, there was a big shift in the industrial complex, a re-imagining of the role of women in society, and economic boost. Social shifts began to shape a new national identity which would change the country forever.
World War I (1914-1918) was a war that changed world history forever. The technological, industrial, social and political advances that took place at beginning of the 20th century paved the way for today 's world. And the parties involved in World War I used those advances to create one of the first modern wars. For those reasons World War I is referred to as many things including, an industrial war, a war of attrition, and as a total war. These aspects is what makes the war so revolutionary and groundbreaking and equally as devastating. A novel that helps illustrate each of these categories is All Quiet on the Western Front (1928), by Erich Maria Remarque. The author tells a German soldiers experiences through the war. The book does not
The post-World War eras, as described in Norton, were transformational times for the United States. U.S. engagement in the world opened up the country to new ideas, advancements in technology and forced the country into a time of self-reflection. Engagement in the world had opened up new roles for the individual and shifted the boundaries of how people interacted with each other, and shifted the boundaries of how people viewed themselves. These new roles and boundaries would go on to affect culture, art, and science, and would usher in the era of Modernism.