WWI Influencing the Roaring 20s
A Pivotal event in American History would be how the roaring 20s were influenced by World War I and it’s because after the war people felt happy and started buying everything on credit. They also started to increase production on everything and since they started buying everything on credit it created problems because people were on debt.
After World War I for a few Years in the 1920s the United Sates enjoyed a period of real and broadly distributed prosperity. Families purchased their first automobile, radio and refrigerator, and they began going to the movies regularly. And suffrage, after decades of political activism, succeeded in getting approval of a constitutional amendment in the 1920s that gave women the right to vote. It also brought a feeling of freedom and independence to millions of Americans especially young ones. Young soldiers returned home from the war with new ideas. Many young Americans, both men and women, began to challenge some of the traditions of their parents and grandparents. For example some young woman began to experiment with new kinds of clothes. They no longer wore dresses that hide the shape of their bodies. Instead they wore thinner dresses that uncovered part of their legs. They had seen a new world in Europe. They had faced death and learned to enjoy the pleasures that …show more content…
Since everybody started buying everything on credit it created problems because everybody was on debt. At first it became possible for Americans to buy on credit through the credo of “Buy Now, Pay Later”. Generous lines of credit were offered by department stores for families who were to pay upfront but who could demonstrate their ability to pay in the future. Well of course since everybody could buy on credit more than half of the automobiles in the nation were sold on credit by the end if the 1920s. As a result, consumers’ debt more than doubled during the