How

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Howd we get there?

• The transition from WWI-WWII
• 1919-1941

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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

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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
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Domestic Culture

• 1920 Women have rights?
• 1920-1933 Prohibition.
• Harlem , spectator sports, Jazz, movies, fashion,
  architecture, modern art.
• Immigration.
• Nativism.

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International Politics

• 1919 Failure of the Treaty of Versailles.
• Rise of Dictators Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler,
  Tojo.
• Facism.
• Communism.

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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 Whos the worlds banker now?

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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.

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