the usa in the first decades of the 20th century
CONTRADICTION
US was richest country in the world, but spread of poverty in industrial area of North workers lived in dirty,overcrowded slums worked many hours for low wages
muckrackers -> journalist,who write about the horrible situation of worker's life
POLICY
Roosvelt became the 26th President
imperial expansion
bought Alaska from Russia (1867)
support Cuba rebellion against Spain = Spanish-America War -> acquired Cuba, Puerto Rico and Philippines
American Constitution
WW1
beginning US hold its policy of isolation
1917 -> British liner Lusitiana was sunk -> US joined considering it a war to end all wars
1918 -> armistice was signes ->14 points and seat a plan to create "League of Nations
1920
economy grew quickly
vast resources invested to create new industries,
population increasing
taxes on profits were cut
miners,farmers,urban workers remained untouched by wealth
know as "Jazz Age" or "Roading Twenties" because there were a feeling of experimentation in music,dance and fashion
Red Scare = fear of socialism -> imprisonment and persecution of political activists with radical or labour backgrounds
US granted independence to their dominions except for Cuba
18th Amendment = prohibited mnufacture,consumption and import of alcohol-> illegal traffic of "bootleggers" and increades gangsterism
moderate program of social legislations
"New Deal" of reforms -> 3 aim : relief,recovery and reform
1929
American stock market collapsed =Great Wall Street Crash ->Great Depression
bussnessmen were ruined,millions of common people had to face debt and ruin
1930
!Dust Bowl" = ecological disaster -> a decade- long drought provoke agricoltural devatsation
helped to lengthen the Drepression
effects were felt worlwide