Instructions: Review the major social and economic developments in American society during the 1920s and 1930s. Post a substantive discussion post of at least 200 words that compares and contrasts the decades of the 1920's with the 1930s using the following questions as the basis of your analysis:
• How did American society change in the two decades after the First World War?
• How did the federal government change in response to those changes?
• How did the American people respond to the changing role of the federal government?
• How did the New Deal change over time and what alternatives were offered to it?
• Which groups benefited or suffered most from these changes?
• Should this period be regarded as having represented a revolutionary moment in American history?
Along with the general discussion, address developments across these two decades related to AT LEAST ONE of the following groups:
• Evangelical Protestants
• Farmers
• African Americans
• Women
• Business owners
• The middle class
Instructions: Please post a substantive discussion post of at least 200 words that examines the evolution of American foreign policy in the 1930s: What arguments were made in favor of isolationism? How and why did America's isolationist stance erode entering into the 1940s? How did American foreign policy goals shape the American approach to the war?