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Long Term Effects Of The Great War

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The first world war was not only a significant impact worldwide but a revolution throughout the aspects of the USA. The Great War was certainly ‘great’ in its significant impact on making America a superpower. Not only has the first world war been significant in creating a second social, economical and industrial revolution for the new generation to come even into the millennium, but it has shaped creatives like Ernest Hemingway to the success of military heroes like George. C Marshall and Dwight D. Eisenhower. The significance of the ‘great’ war wasn’t always positive in fact, the consequences started to outway the goods. Throughout all the tidal wave of success in the 1920s, the worst economic downturn in history had just started. The …show more content…

In 1924 there was a Universal Compensation In May 1932, 45,000 unemployed veterans and 17,000 veteran family members and affiliated groups gathered in and out of The Capitol in Washington D.C to demand an adjusted compensation for the loss of wages during the war. 10,000 occupied the inside the Capitol and even in the waiting room of the senior members of government. On 28 July 1932 President Hoover ordered the eviction of the bonus marchers. Using tear gas, troops and tanks, and a cavalry commanded by Major George S. on 8 November 1932 FDR was voted the new …show more content…

During the first world war, almost forty percent of just U.S soldiers were from a family of immigrants or immigrants themselves. The first world war was very significant in recognizing immigrants as their service didn’t just help win the war. It is suggested that they accelerate the assimilation creating acceptance from an entire new generation of Americans. After the first world war the immigration started to slow down, to an average of just 110,618 in 1918 from almost a million. Yet, during the 1920s racist attitudes towards immigrants grew worse and worse from a fear of Bolshevism . Americans became what was known as ‘The Red Scare’ of communism actions being brought to america. 400,00 American workers went on strike, as well as police, looters and thieves which ranged to 25 towns. A significant example of intolerance of immigrants in the USA due to the First World War was the Sacco and Vanzetti criminal case. Two high profile victims were arrested in 1920 on suspicion of murder and armed robbery on vague and flimsy evidence. The prosecution relied heavily on racist slurs about their Italian origins and stirring up theories from the fears of the radical beliefs. After six years of appeals Vanzetti and Sacco were executed in 1927. Fifty years later they were pardoned. In 1924, the government introduced a new system that was made to ensure that the largest

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