Review the major social and economic developments in American society during the 1920s and 1930s. After reviewing your Instructor's Guidance and completing the weekly reading assignments (including those in the resource section below), please 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?