How’d we get there?

The transition from WWI-WWII

1919-1941

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

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

Domestic Culture• 1920: Women have rights?

• 1920-1933: Prohibition.

• Harlem , spectator sports, Jazz, movies, fashion, architecture, modern art.

• Immigration.

• Nativism.

International Politics• 1919: Failure of the Treaty of Versailles.

• Rise of Dictators: Stalin, Mussolini, Hitler, Tojo.

• Facism.

• Communism.

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: Who’s the “world’s banker” now?

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.

How’d we get there?

How’d we get there?

How’d we get there?

How’d we get there?

How’d we get there?