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World War One and After
America as a World Power. A tradition of non-intervention in world affairs changed when the United States entered World War I in 1917 on the side of Britain and France, and against Germany and Austria. Though many Americans, especially those of German background, opposed the war, civil liberties were suspended, protestors were sent to jail, a draft was instituted, industry was forcibly streamlined and put on a war footing, and the United States threw itself into war. Americans soldiers fought for only a few months before the armistice in 1918, yet so many Americans were killed and wounded that today, nearly every city and town in the United States that existed at the time has a memorial or statue to commemorate its local citizens who did not return. Next Section: The Jazz Age Land, History and Language: Chapter Home
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