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1920’s in Politics
In the aftermath of the ‘Great War’, the first global conflict between the world’s major superpowers and the eventual rise of Prohibition, brought about by the eighteenth amendment, the world entered its second decade in the twentieth century: the Roaring Twenties.
In the political spotlight of this new age, the leaders of the post-World War I nations took center stage. The United States, the Soviet Union, and the newly-emerged Weimar Republic of the defeated Germany all played host to many famous and infamous political power players to come.
Warren G. Harding (http://www.shmoop.com/media/images/large/warren-g.-harding.jpg)
- The twenty-ninth president of the United States, Warren G. Harding was the paragon of unearned celebrity and political corruption. In the post-World War I presidential elections, Harding ran under the campaign slogan ‘Return to Normalcy’, promising to bring America back to its lost splendor from before the war. Unfortunately, this was hardly the case. As president, Harding was ineffective and corrupt: he loaned out federal money to corporations, failed to prevent striking labor unions and workers from revolting, and only prolonging the ‘Red Scare’ the increasing paranoia of communists and their sympathizers on American soil. He died in office in 1923.
In the aftermath of the ‘Great War’, the first global conflict between the world’s major superpowers and the eventual rise of Prohibition, brought about by the eighteenth amendment, the world entered its second decade in the twentieth century: the Roaring Twenties.
In the political spotlight of this new age, the leaders of the post-World War I nations took center stage. The United States, the Soviet Union, and the newly-emerged Weimar Republic of the defeated Germany all played host to many famous and infamous political power players to come.
Warren G. Harding (http://www.shmoop.com/media/images/large/warren-g.-harding.jpg)
- The twenty-ninth president of the United States, Warren G. Harding was the paragon of unearned celebrity and political corruption. In the post-World War I presidential elections, Harding ran under the campaign slogan ‘Return to Normalcy’, promising to bring America back to its lost splendor from before the war. Unfortunately, this was hardly the case. As president, Harding was ineffective and corrupt: he loaned out federal money to corporations, failed to prevent striking labor unions and workers from revolting, and only prolonging the ‘Red Scare’ the increasing paranoia of communists and their sympathizers on American soil. He died in office in 1923.
Herbert Hoover
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- The thirty-first president of the United States, former Secretary of Commerce under the Harding and Coolidge administrations, Herbert Hoover was both a blessing and a curse for 1920’s America. He solved many problems left untouched or caused by the previous presidents, but was ineffectual in preventing the 1929 stock crash and the ensuing Great Depression, which permanently destroyed his reputation as one of the worst US presidents ever.
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- The thirty-first president of the United States, former Secretary of Commerce under the Harding and Coolidge administrations, Herbert Hoover was both a blessing and a curse for 1920’s America. He solved many problems left untouched or caused by the previous presidents, but was ineffectual in preventing the 1929 stock crash and the ensuing Great Depression, which permanently destroyed his reputation as one of the worst US presidents ever.
Adolf Hitler
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- Everybody knows the story of Adolf Hitler: the man who would become the representation of evil in our time, the dictator of Nazi Germany that incited what would become ‘The War To End All Wars’ World War II. After serving in the German Army in the first World War, Hitler was an angry man; his adopted homeland was defeated and in severe economic instability, tariffs and taxes from the victorious Allied powers crushed the will of many German politicians and businesspeople, and the Treaty of Versailles virtually left the Weimar Republic destitute. He joined the National Socialist Worker’s Party, better known as the Nazis, and commandeered the Beer Hall Putsch riot, which brought his anti-Semitic policies into international attention
http://orientalreview.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/11/Hitler-1921.jpg
- Everybody knows the story of Adolf Hitler: the man who would become the representation of evil in our time, the dictator of Nazi Germany that incited what would become ‘The War To End All Wars’ World War II. After serving in the German Army in the first World War, Hitler was an angry man; his adopted homeland was defeated and in severe economic instability, tariffs and taxes from the victorious Allied powers crushed the will of many German politicians and businesspeople, and the Treaty of Versailles virtually left the Weimar Republic destitute. He joined the National Socialist Worker’s Party, better known as the Nazis, and commandeered the Beer Hall Putsch riot, which brought his anti-Semitic policies into international attention
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