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America Between Wars

America Between the Wars

(1919 ' 1941)

The 1920s was a time of prosperity, but also a time of many downfalls. It was an era of change a time when people began to do what they wanted to do instead of following social norms. The  United States of America prospered as Henry Ford developed the automobile assembly line, as the nation had its first ever TV broadcast in New York, and as mail was delivered via airplanes. Women fought for the right to vote and changed the rules of fashion. Prohibition made it illegal to drink alcohol, creating organized crime with Al Capone leading the way. Charles Lindbergh got the name Lucky Lindy and became a national hero.

The title of my project: America between Wars allowed me to present the most powerful country of the world from a different perspective. The decision behind choosing such topic was dictated by the previous interests which emerged as a result of my earlier contacts with the American culture. If the number of happenings during America between wars could be sufficient to make the reader interested in the topic, the above mentioned would be sufficient. Even though the number of the aspects of the history which I have included in my thesis was shortened to the reasonable limits, there is still some space left for the reader to say ' “I would have chosen something else”. And he or she would be right. The American history of this particular period is so drastically changing and has so many twists and turns that there is no way to chose the best of the best.

In the aftermath of World War I, the “Great War,” the nations of the world tended to retreat inside themselves, to lick their wounds and reorganize their economic and social structures.  The United States, relatively untouched by the first world war, at least in comparison with the losses suffered by the European nations, also turned inward.

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