CHOOSE ONE of the following essay questions for this assignment:
American reaction to and eventual participation in World War I affected those who participated in the war as well as those Americans who remained on the home front. Identify and explain five specific legacies that can be connected to the war. Explain what changed during the war years and how those changes impacted American society. Your response might include changes in how 20th-century war would be waged, how reform movements that existed before the war were affected by the need to mobilize, how roles for various Americans expanded, or how the domestic and international political landscape changed.
The 1920s was a decade marled by contradictory impulses. Some Americans celebrated economic prosperity and new opportunities; others expressed anxiety about the changes that had been taking place in American society since the turn of the century. Consider the following aspects of American society: (1) economic policies (2) the lives of African Americans (3) women’s lives (4) religion (5) immigration and (6) political differences. Identify and analyze five specific examples of change in the 1920s that relate to any of these aspects of American society.
