How America Suffered from World War 1

During the war, Americans witnessed the beginning of a great social and industrial change. After America went to war there was no job where a woman was not working. They basically opened up every line of service for women.

America was impacted a great deal economically. For the short term effect the US economy grew in the buildup to the war and during its prosecution. From 1915 the US made a lot of loans to the UK to help the war effort. It is not to much to say that WWI was the main factor in contributing to disaster when the US economy boomed. After the peace the economy dropped and this is most likely a contribution to the stopping of war material production. Was that the economy grew a large amount due to their involvement in WWI.

America was impacted a great deal socially. Those factors contributed to an increase in divorce, resulting in heartbreaking problems for the young. There were around five million war widows, trying to provide for their children alone. Women got jobs outside the house left do many small children who were unsupervised much of the day. The rates of crimes, disease and ditching increased dramatically. The impact on the family was very clear, attended by much anxiety because of the breakdown of social values.

America was impacted a great deal politically. Congress authorized President Woodrow Wilson to create a bureaucracy of 500,000 to 1 million new jobs.To help solve the labor crisis, they pulled in workers from the South and Midwest to war industries in the East. In April 1917, the Administration created the Committee on Public Information, to control war information and provide pro-war advertisement. Giving jobs to talented writers and scholars, it issued anti-German pamphlets and films. It organized thousands of Four-Minute Men to deliver brief speeches at movie theaters, schools and churches to promote patriotism and participation in the war effort.

In conclusion America has evidently suffered economically, politically, and socially due to World War 1. Many things happened to America but we can agree that we have grown from this impact.

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