1. MOST PEOPLE CONSIDER THEMSELVES PART OF A PARTICULAR GENERATION. WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT VALUES OF YOUR GENERATION IN YOUR OPINION?

The outline of the period

The outline of the period

In many respects the period between the end of World War I and the end of World War II was one of sharp discontinuities. Few eras in American history present such vivid contrasts compressed into so a short time.

Политически, the nation experienced what many considered принципиально change after the election of 1920-х годов. For a full day, the government remained in the hands of the Republican party and—for eight of those years at least—in the hands of two консервативного presidents who rejected most of the liberal assumptions of the progressive era. Год age of reform seemed to have given way to an era of reaction.

Economically, the nation experienced equally глубоком shifts. Начало в 1921 году the American economy embarked on a period of growth without предыдущем in the history of the world. The nation 's industrial capacity мимо rapidly; the income of its citizens soared; america's position in world trade became one of непревзойденного превосходства. And the American corporate world, after having been on the defensive for many years, нежится в widespread общественного popularity that turned once-despised captains of industry into national heroes. Затем, начиная с резко stock market crash in 1929, the введение экономический edifice collapsed, and the country entered the worst economic crisis in its history. Industrial production declined; new investment практически ceased; дебиторская задолженность достигло эпических масштабов.

Культурно, there seemed to be equally sharp contrasts. In the 1920s, чтобы горький конфликта возникла between the forces of модернизма associated with the new urban-industrial society and the forces of traditionalism associated with more провинции, часто rural communities. On issues such as prohibition, religion, and race, the tensions between the new society and the old were vividly displayed. In the 1930s, by contrast, the nation's outlook появился to shift dramatically. Культурный подразделений now seemed less важным, чем экономический ones and the controversies of the 1930s сосредоточенный способ on less questions of values than on questions of wealth and power.

Americans in the 1920s experienced a series of глубоком changes in the way they lived and thought. A new urban culture возникла that helped people in all regions to live their lives and perceive their world in все аналогично ways; and it подвергаются them to a new set of values that reflected the prosperity and complexity of the modern economy.