HIST 331 Lecture : US Between the Wars lecture notes
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Prof"s thesis - we shouldn"t think of this period as simply a time that after ww1. America went to sleep and boozed the great depression and the rise of the liberal state that would grow to shape much of the modern world. Challenge the prof, the authors, my peers to develop my own critical thought on the matter. The new deal was the start of modern american idealism. Civil war brought together the us in a industrialized unified force that was strongly attached to militarization and military service. When you look ahead into the 20th century at the wars where you see national mobilization. Ww1 big strong national mobilization to do all this and more the federal government assumed central responsibility. The war was conducted by a liberal figure who believed the federal government should take a central role (woodrough wilson) instead of letting the free-market organize itself. Powerful precedent of what would happen in the future.
