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Historical events
1914-1916
- Word War
- President(USA): Woodrow Wilson
- HMS Lusitania sunk by German Submarine
- anti-German sentiment
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)
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
- publishion of "The Decline of the West"
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
