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| | | Re: History Of The Post-War Era < Reply # 2 on 2/27/2009 8:26 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by racetraitor The '20s was another post-war period where urbanisation and construction took off, and North American culture went through some of the most drastic changes in history.
| i'd definitely agree with that statement, however, i feel that the most drastic social, economic and truly global implications came as a result of World War II. I mean, at the end of WWII, there were two great super powers, two big kids on the block, and everyone caught between them. Have you ever watched propaganda pumped out by the US government from the early to mid 1950's? If you dubbed it in German, it would've had the same sinister fruitiness as propaganda films from Nazi Germany a decade before. The 20's were a lull before the storm, I feel. Also, the 20's were a forgotten period in American history. It was between the end of World War I and before the Great Depression... it was definitely a time to get your party on because from that point on, 1929, there wouldn't be much partying going on. i think we're going to have fun with this discussion board!
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| | | | Re: History Of The Post-War Era < Reply # 3 on 2/27/2009 9:27 AM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by Samurai i'd definitely agree with that statement, however, i feel that the most drastic social, economic and truly global implications came as a result of World War II. I mean, at the end of WWII, there were two great super powers, two big kids on the block, and everyone caught between them. Have you ever watched propaganda pumped out by the US government from the early to mid 1950's? If you dubbed it in German, it would've had the same sinister fruitiness as propaganda films from Nazi Germany a decade before. The 20's were a lull before the storm, I feel. Also, the 20's were a forgotten period in American history. It was between the end of World War I and before the Great Depression... it was definitely a time to get your party on because from that point on, 1929, there wouldn't be much partying going on. i think we're going to have fun with this discussion board!
| Uh-oh, I sense a '20s vs '50s war coming on! Have you ever read The Great Gatsby? I haven't, but the '20s weren't called the Roaring '20s for no reason. This was when people started buying mass-produced goods, listening to radio stations, building skyscrapers. It's also when black or "race" music started to take hold. It was also when women got the right to vote and started being a little more liberal with their bodies. In fact the '20s had a much more drastic sexual revolution than the '60s (keeping in mind that the flappers were the first of their kind while the free love of the '60s was just bringing to fruition ideas that were already in play). After World War II, the old superpowers were in bad shape, leaving only two left to fight over the remains. However, it is immediately following World War I that the US became the world's richest nation for the first time. There are definitely a lot of similarities between the '20s and the '50s, both being prosperous times full of growth and social change. Fortunately the latter had a happier ending.
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| | | | Re: History Of The Post-War Era < Reply # 6 on 2/27/2009 7:44 PM > | Reply with Quote
| | | Posted by PorkChopExpress We will come out of the second great depression and spend money like madmen.
| Hopefully that will not be the case, for moderated expenditure seems to be a better course of action. Personally, I've learned to squeeze by in this depression with a moderate, yet bearable, level of discomfort, know that the economy will some day pick up. I actually believe that the current state of international affairs, namely Iraq, will not have any direct bearing on our crisis once the "War On Terror" is completed. Had this "war" been an actual military conflict, instead of a simple outlet for America's moneys and young lives, I doubt that the world would be lodged in such fiscal despair. I sincerely hope, however, that it will not take a full-scale war to stabilize mankind's monetary situation. The loss in life would a tragic trade-off for what, a somewhat heavier pocket book?
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