WW1

basis

allies vs central powers

Policy of non-intervention

trade with allies, supplies

Striking of American ships

The Zimmerman Telegram

US declares war on German Apr. 1917, Pres. Wilson

Nov. 11, 1918 Armistice

1919 Versailles Treaty, hard on Germany

Wilson's Fourteen Points, The League of Nations

Between the wars

The Roaring Twenties

Industrial growth and prosperity

class seperation

North - family farm, South - sharecrappers

farmers go bankrupt

The Red Scare

Pres. Herbert Hoover

Hollywood

Women's rights

Prohibition 1919-1933 (alcohol made illegal, which led to the growth of the Mafia)

The Depression

1929 Wall Street Crash

mostly known for being a happy time in the rich America (not for everyone ofc) before the farmers go bankrupt, fear of communism, The Red Scare

End of prosperity

Unemployment and poverty

President Franklin D. Roosevelt 1932-1945

happened for religious, moral reasons, and and women played a strong role in the Prohibition, bc of a growng drinking problem, and it destroyed families and marriages, they didn't like their husbands being drunk (women were blamed at least)

leads to unemployment and finacial issues

New Deal Programs

government put out the new deal programs in reaction to the depression, and the government becomes more powerful

1935: Right to join labour union

Social Security Act