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    As the Great War began in 1914 and ended in 1918 , president Woodrow Wilson established his foreign policy which was known as “Liberal Internalism”, which is “A foreign policy doctrine that argues about how the liberal states should involve themselves in other sovereign states(United Nations) in order to pursue liberal objectives”.This policy went hand in hand and made it clear that it was now the united states turn to promote both a free market and a political democracy, which Wilson later did…

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    1919-1930 Analysis

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    Reading Response (Native Americans) Football during the 1919-1930 became a very dominant sport for the Native Americans, especially the Haskell Indian School. The Haskell Indian School was opened in September of 1884 and consisted of just 22 students, however after just one semester the student body had reached 300 students. It was a school that had only 10 grade levels and subjects that we being taught to the students were mathematics, English, home economics, and industrial training. In 1896…

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    Germans were known for their brewing their own alcohol. In 1919 Prohibition became the law of the land with the Eighteenth Amendment which prohibited manufacturing, selling, or transport of any intoxicating liquors within the United States. Prohibition was difficult to enforce because it required a high degree of cooperation from citizens and many parts of the country citizens would not cooperate. After Congress passed the Volstead Act of 1919 which detailed the strict punishments for…

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    Politics aside, 1919 was also a year of a number of huge scales social protests and riots. The Seattle General Strike, for one, was a five days strike of workers demanding a higher wage. The strike first started with about 35,000 participants but had grown to 60,000 by the time it ended on January 16th. Although no violence was involved throughout the whole protest, the Seattle General Strike was, however, considered by many as a radical attempt of overthrowing the US institution. Another…

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    After the ultimate end of WWI the world was in utter chaos, due to Germany’s defeat during the war, the Treaty of Versailles was created. The Treaty was created by the Allied powers outside Paris, inside the Palace of Versailles on January 1919. This peace conference was dominated by the big four, this included the following countries and their leaders: France, Great Britain, Italy, and the United States. After a prolonged session of meeting after meeting the big four was eventually able to come…

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    1919 Prohibition Dbq

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    The 1919 Experiment known as the Prohibition “When the Mayor of Berlin, Gustav Boess, visited New York City in the fall of 1929, one of the questions he had for his host, Mayor James J. Walker, was when Prohibition was to go into effect. The problem was that Prohibition has already been the law of the United States for nearly a decade. That Boess had to ask tells you plenty about how well it was working” (PBS). Ironically in 1919 the eighteenth amendment was put into place for the benefit of…

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    1919-1939 Dbq

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    The interwar period of 1919-1939 had economic disruptions that led to unstable political conditions during transformations that were occurring in Japan, China, Mexico, Turkey and Iran. Of all these countries Japan stands out as executing the most successful transformation due to aggressive nationalism that helped it achieve expansion into China as well as the ability to create an empire during this period. Other countries like China and Mexico were less successful because of struggles to…

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    The Red Summer of 1919 The assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria by Serbian nationalist, Gavrilo Princip on June 28, 1914, set off a series of battles that would eventually lead to World War I. The United States answered the call to battle, deploying 5 million men both black and white, this once again gave African Americans the opportunity to serve their country. Domestically, The Great Migration, in which at least 500,000 African Americans moved to cities in the North and…

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    this the white people thought that African Americans had too much freedom that they should have because of their skin color. This obviously offended African Americans, and I see why. These riots took place in the in the South. Also. in the summer of 1919 riots would break out…

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    The “Chicago Race Riot of 1919” was a major racial conflict that began in Chicago, Illinois on July 27, 1919 and ended on August 3, 1919. The “Chicago Race Riot” was not the result of one incident alone they were the results of several factors. These factors, including the economic, the social and political differences between blacks and whites, and the post-war atmosphere of a society and the thinking of different race relations in1919 combined to make Chicago one of the prime targets for this…

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