Events That Affected The Lives Of Americans In The 1920's

Society Impacted by War

In the 1920’s many events occurred during World War One that impacted the lives of Americans. Our society was changed or affected in many ways during this course in time. World War one tremendously changed our society economically, socially, and the lives of soldiers throughout the war.

First and foremost, America witnesses an economic boom that affected all Americans tremendously during the First World War. The American economy sparked in production due to the war. On the website ”The United States of America had an essential supply of natural resources such as timber, iron, coal, minerals, oil and land. This enabled America to become a huge economic power at the beginning of the twentieth century.” This quote is

Women were affected during the World War as their social status began to shift to a better role and more opportunities than before the war. In this quote, “In 1920, after 72 years of struggle, American women received the right to vote.” This quote shows us that the war was helping our society improve by giving more rights to the women who were being discriminated and brought down in society for so long. Women being able to vote now has an affect on the war, this means that women have a say now in voting for what goes on during the war and this has a big social impact for the country during the war. While women had the right to vote African Americans were being affected aswell socially.In this quote, ” In World War I, a higher proportion of black soldiers than white soldiers had lost their lives: 14.4 percent black compared to 6.3 percent white. Many African Americans believed that this sacrifice would be repaid when the war was over.” This quote is showing that the African American hoped they would be honored and treated better for their efforts and sacrifice in the war. Although, the war didn’t help the African Americans in the way the intended it made them have more social problems in their communities when the federal government didn’t allow them to participate in the victory march. This shows that the war inflicted more discrimination on the Africans during the 1920s. Of all our social issues during the World War one of the biggest topics of the time was The Ku Klux Klan. Stated that ” Klan members considered themselves defenders of Prohibition, traditional morality, and true Americanism. The Klan efforts were directed against African Americans, Jews, Catholics, and immigrants.” This quote is explaining that the Klan was targeting people during the war. Instead of all Americans to unite together and work together peacefully to end this war in success. The Ku Klux Klan was hurting and impacting groups of