This Side Of Paradise: Mirror Image Of The 20's
...a time of great change in the United States. The Jazz era was dawning, social classes were beginning to solidify themselves into our society, huge companies were forming and dominating markets, a new movement of females was beginning to fight for women’s suffrage, and a new group of youths known as the lost generation formed. The country saw 4 presidents enter and leave office, each with varying views and policies that they enacted. The presidents during the “Roaring Twenties” were Woodrow Wilson, Warren G. Harding, Calvin Coolidge, and Herbert Clark Hoover. Prohibition was ratified into the constitution on January 16th, 1920, under the administration of Woodrow Wilson. Despite this, many people still continued to consume alcohol. World War I began in 1914, but the United States did not declare war against the Central powers, composed of Germany Austria-Hungary, and Turkey, until April 6th, 1917. The sinking of the Lusitania prompted the U.S. to enter the world, a British cruise liner with 128 American passengers onboard that perished. People were not fond of the war as it progressed further, seeing as though the death toll was rising rapidly, rising to 117,465 total deaths and 205,690 people wounded (White). With the new technology of tanks and machine guns being used in the war, Soldiers were forced to engage in trench warfare, which would cause a stalemate between the Central powers and the Allied powers. The conditions in the trenches were horrible, and caused the soldier to come back home much worse for the ware. The Lost Generation, also known as the Children of WWI, were nomads who had fought in the war, and returned home to find a changed America. The person who coined this saying was an American poet by the name of Gertrude Stein, who, when talking to Ernest hemming way said, "you are all a lost generation"(What is the Lost Generation?). Many of the...
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