World War 1 Impact On Society

The United States, just as much of the rest of the world, was in a period of extreme turmoil at the start of the twentieth century, for simplicity mainly between the years of 1910 and 1960. The world was mourning the loss of lives from World War I, the Great Depression had torn most of the world’s economies to shreds, aggressive dictators had come to power, a second wave of devastation had come in the form of World War II, the first atomic weapon had been unleashed on Japan, and the United States was domestically involved in the Civil Rights Movement that would strive for the equality of the races. No area of daily life for any American was left untouched or unaffected by the turmoil; including the aspect of religion. In fact, during the

One effect that has had perhaps the longest lasting impact on the nation was the policy of interventionism that would reign supreme in American foreign policy until modern times. George Washington had warned against the perils of American intervention, but later stages of the nation did not heed his warning in the wake of World War I. Another impact was that the United States became more progressive as a nation overall, in that the nation was now “advocating or implementing social reform or new, liberal ideas”. The newly found progressive nature of the nation encouraged Americans to share new ideas and to strive to better the social and economic positions of their neighbors as well as themselves. These progressive reform movements included, but were not limited to: labor, health care and medicine, government, tax, race and gender, and conservation reforms. Many of these progressive reform movements were based in the church or various religious groups and caused even more Americans to join, or return to, the embracing arms and folds of traditional religion.
In the aftermath of World War I, the world was still recuperating and both the Allies and Central Powers were rebuilding their land, economies, and political systems while healing the wounds of war, returning to normalcy, and bring some peace back to the world order. After the war, the world did not receive much time, approximately ten years, to rebuild before the stock market crash on Black Tuesday and the beginning of the Great