The guns fell silent. Bombs stopped flying through the air. Soldiers climbed out of the trenches and looked at the horizon beyond, imagining their lives when they return. Back home, millions of miniature American flags waved back and forth, parades ran through the crowded streets, and people with their loved ones who fought in the war walked together arm in arm with a smile from ear to ear. On November 11, 1918, World War I was officially over. The decade after the war, the 1920’s were a time in American history that was well-known for its prosperity, decadence, social and political change. The decade was nicknamed the “Roaring Twenties”, and for good reason too. In F. Scott Fitzgerald’s fictional novel The Great Gatsby, the author romanticised life in the 1920’s, when in actuality, WWI veterans returned from the battlefield and were suffering from mental and physical problems, women were becoming increasingly involved in society, and the fear of communism quickly made its way into American lives. Before the decade of the 1920’s officially began, World War I, originally called the “Great War”, had just ended. Soldiers stationed in places all over the world were getting ready to return home and back to their families and friends. Unfortunately, “for some, the war’s impact on their bodies and minds lasted a lifetime” (Inscription of the Liberty Memorial Tower in Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, U.S.A). They would not be the same when they came back as they were when they