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Woodrow Wilson's
the 28th U.S. president served in office from 1913 to 1921 and led America through World War I (1914-1918) Wilson was a college professor university president and Democratic governor of New Jersey before winning the White House in 1912. -
Women's Suffrage: Crash Course US History
So between Teddy Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson and all those doughboys headed off to war, women in this period have sort of been footnoted. Shockingly. Some historians refer to the thirty years between 1890 and 1920 as the "Women's Era" because it was in that time that women started to have greater economic and political opportunities. -
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Women's Suffrage: Crash Course US History
in 1874 and by 1890 it had 150 000 members making it the largest female organization in the United States. Under the leadership of Frances Willard, the WCTU embraced a broad reform agenda. Like it included pushing for the right for women to vote. The feeling was that the best way to stop people from drinking was to pass local laws that made it harder to drink. -
World War I
World War I, also known as the Great War, began in 1914 after the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria. His murder catapulted into a war across Europe that lasted until 1918. During the conflict, Germany, Austria-Hungary, Bulgaria and the Ottoman Empire (the Central Powers) fought against Great Britain, France, Russia, Italy, Romania, Japan and the United States (the Allied Powers). -
America in World War I: Crash Course US History
So The Great War, which lasted from 1914 until 1918 and featured a lot of men with hats and rifles, cost the lives of an estimated ten million soldiers. Also the whole thing was kind of horrible and pointless - unless you love art and literature about how horrible and pointless World War I was, in which case it was a real bonanza. -
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World War I
Thanks to new military technologies and the horrors of trench warfare, World War I saw unprecedented levels of carnage and destruction. By the time the war was over and the Allied Powers claimed victory, more than 16 million people—soldiers and civilians alike—were dead -
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America in World War I: Crash Course US History date
So when the war broke out, America remained neutral, because we were a little bit isolationist, owing to the fact that we were led, of course, by President Wilson. But many Americans sided with the British, because by 1914 we'd pretty much forgotten about all the bad parts of British rule, like all that tea and monarchy. Plus they're so easy to talk to with their English. But there were a significant number of progressives who worried that involvement in the war would get in the way. -
The Roaring Twenties
The Roaring Twenties was a period in history of dramatic social and political change. For the first time, more Americans lived in cities than on farms. The nation’s total wealth more than doubled between 1920 and 1929, and this economic growth swept many Americans into an affluent but unfamiliar “consumer society -
The Roaring 20's: Crash Course US History
The Republican Party dominated politics in the 1920s, with all the presidents elected in the decade being staunch, conservative Republicans. The federal government hewed to the policies favored by business lobbyists, including lower taxes on personal income and business profits, and efforts to weaken the power of unions. -
The Great Depression: Crash Course US History
The 1920s featured large-scale domestic consumption of relatively new consumer products, which was good for American industry, but much of this consumption was fueled by credit and instalment buying, which, as it turned out, was totally unsustainable. The thing about credit is that it works fine unless and until economic uncertainty increases, at which point [explosion noises]. That's a technical historian term, by the way. -
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The Roaring 20's: Crash Course US History
By 1929, half of all American families owned a car and thus began the American love affair with the automobile, which is also where love affairs were often consummated. Which is why, in the 1920s, cars came to be known as "skoodilypooping chariots". What's that? They were called "brothels on wheels. -
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The Great Depression: Crash Course US History
by 1925 the growth of car manufacturing slowed along with residential construction. And worst of all was what noted left wing radical Herbert Hoover labelled an "orgy of mad speculation" in the stock markets that began in 1927. By the way, I'm kidding about him being a left wing radical. You - just look at him. -
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The Great Depression
1933, he acted swiftly to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. Over the next eight years, the government instituted a series of experimental New Deal projects and programs, such as the CCC, the WPA, the TVA, the SEC and others. Roosevelt’s New Deal fundamentally and permanently changed the U.S. federal government by expanding its size and scope—especially its role in the economy. -
The New Deal: Crash Course US History
They weren’t always the same thing. John will tell you who supported the New Deal, and who opposed it. He’ll also get into how the New Deal changed the relationship between the government and citizens, and will even reveal just how the Depression ended. (hint: it was war spending. -
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The New Deal: Crash Course US History
before 1935, many of which were passed in the first hundred days of his presidency. It turns out that when it comes to getting our notoriously gridlocked Congress to pass legislation, nothing motivates like crisis and fear. Stan, can I get the foreshadowing filter? We may see this again. -
The Great Depression & FDR’s New Deal
The New Deal was a series of programs and projects instituted during the Great Depression by President Franklin D. Roosevelt that aimed to restore prosperity to Americans. When Roosevelt took office in 1933, he acted swiftly to stabilize the economy and provide jobs and relief to those who were suffering. Over the next eight years.
