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How’d we get there?
The transition from WWI-WWII
1919-1941
Domestic Politics• Woodrow Wilson: 1913-1921, Democrat
• Warren G. Harding: 1921-1923, Republican
• Calvin Coolidge: 1923-1929, Republican
• Herbert Hoover: 1929-1933, Republican
• Franklin Delano Roosevelt: 1933-1945 Democrat
Domestic Economics• Early 1900s - ?: Credit!• 1919: $33 billion in war debt.• Early 1920s: Industry declines
after war production.• 1920s: Agriculture suffers due
to decrease demand after the war.
• 1920s: Unequal distribution of wealth.
• October 29, 1929: Black Tuesday.
• 1930 – 1941:Depression
Domestic Culture• 1920: Women have rights?
• 1920-1933: Prohibition.
• Harlem , spectator sports, Jazz, movies, fashion, architecture, modern art.
• Immigration.
• Nativism.
International Politics• 1919: Failure of the Treaty of Versailles.
• Rise of Dictators: Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Tojo.
• Facism.
• Communism.
International Economy• 1919: Post-War depression in Germany and
Russia.
• 1919: Reconstruction in Europe.
• 1920s: Increased militarism leads to surging industries in Russia and Germany.
• Decline of economic superiority in Western Europe: Who’s the “world’s banker” now?
International Culture• 1920s: Europe and the “Age of Anxiety”
– 1929: All Quiet on the Western Front
• “Lost Generation:” Proust, Pound, Eliot.
• Art: Impressionism to Modernism.
• Architecture: Corbusier and “functional” buildings.
How’d we get there?
How’d we get there?
How’d we get there?
How’d we get there?
How’d we get there?