History of the United States (1918-1941)

Disillusioned by the failure in the period after the war in order to achieve the high ideals which were pursued by president Woodrow Wilson, chose the American people once again forisolationism: the focused his attention exclusively on Internal Affairs and those of the Western hemisphere. This led among other things to a unique moral inspired experiment: the constitutionalprohibition, or a complete ban on the consumption of alcohol. However, this proved to be an equally unique revival in the illegal production and trade in alcoholic to leiden, where many gangsters of profited; This constitutional change was reversed in 1933.

During the turbulent twenties (the roaring twenties), the US an unprecedented rise in cultural and economic terms; the euphoria was shattered by the stock market crash of 1929. The great depression that followed in 1933 reached a sad low point without the succeeding really better went. This despite attempts of the Presidents Hoover and especially Franklin D. Roosevelt with hisNew Deal, which with large-scale government projects to address unemployment went.

Hollywood was a household name around the world and in this period the first spoken film The Jazz Singer was released in 1927. Also, the first Academy Awards, the so-called Oscars awarded.The 1930s were the era of politics especially Roosevelt with his New Deal. He was the first and only president who violated the precedent set by George Washington to set again after two terms by re-election. Later it would be impossible to do so by law.

Initially the isolationism made sure that the US military held outside the Second World War . Was there through the Lend-Lease Act money and material sent to Great Britain . The Japaneseattack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 made sure that America also actively went to participate in the Second World War.