Changes in the U.S. in the 1920s & 1930s

Between the two World Wars, the major worldwide event was the Great Depression. This was caused in part by the First World War and would be a factor leading to World War II. The Great Depression in the 1930s was a time of world economic disorder. Had the nations of the world understood what was happening better, they might have avoided the coming war with a more sound economic policy. The Depression had different effects in different countries, but the forces unleashed produced political as well as economic dislocation and tension. The Great Depression started with the stock market crash in 1929.

President Herbert Hoover was unable to cope with the effects of the Depression and was, in any case, blamed by many for the crash itself. Hoover's inability to cope was evident when Hoover used armed force against American veterans, the Bonus Army that had marched on Washington. When the Hoover administration failed to cope with the changed circumstances, it was left to the Roosevelt administration to make massive changes in the economy a

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problems. The desire to protect women in the workplace contributed to the development of a kind of sexism and made women more dependent rather than less, for instance. This was also the era of the muckrakers, journalists seeking to expose wrongdoing, the investigative journalists of an earlier time. These exposTs found a willing audience, which in effect changes the nature of the relationship between the journalist and the audience. This was an era when business and its image alike were changing. The people are trying to take control of a business system which was once the field of the entrepreneur and the creator but which was increasingly the field of the investment and banking experts. The Progressive Era would end around 1920, but its effects would continue. The 1920s was an era marked by trends that seemed to carry the country in different directions. On the one hand there was an explosion in knowledge that marked a changing world, but even as this seemed to contribute to a sense of optimism, it undercut that optimism by challenging accepted beliefs and by offering new knowledge that was not always easy to understand or incorporate into the culture. One of the key forces shaping the 1920s was a holdover from an earl
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