Historical events

Historical events

1. 1914-1916

   • Word War
   • President(USA): Woodrow Wilson
   • HMS Lusitania sunk by German Submarine
     • anti-German sentiment

2. 1917-1919

   • U.S. declares war on Germany
   • American Expeditionary Force under General Pershing fights on the side of Allies in France
   • Versailles Treaty rejected by Senate
   • race-riots in Chicago
   • May Day socialist parade broken up (NY)

3. 1918-1925

   • publishion of "The Decline of the West"
     • portraying Western civilization
   • speakeasy, bootlegger, crime, gangsters
   • most Americans live in urban areas
   • frontier was closed
   • laws: restricted immigration
     • Southern --> eastern Europe
   • Great Britain + France suffering
   • a lot of scandals
   • Adolf Hitler attempt Beer Hall Putsch

4. 1919-1929

   • expansion of the auto, chemical, elextrical applience + radio industrie
   • entertainment industry
   • prosperity of the middle class --> poverty
   • president Wilson dies
   • President: Herbert Hoover
   • "Great Depression"
   • end of laissez-faire economics

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