the world wars

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The World Wars
The post war changes and differences between World War I and World War II are the Jazz era, the Lost Generation, technological advances, and the differences of wars. These changes and differences changed the world today especially in America and Europe.
During the post war era, women began to gain rights, such as voting and the expansion of suffrage. In the middle of World War I, women’s jobs begin to vastly increase in the means of production. Women have created assembly lines for faster production in supplies, guns, and ammunitions for the war (Effects of World War I). After the war, there were young women known as flappers that would express their freedom during the Jazz era. “Flappers rejected old ways in favor of new, exciting freedom” (Ellis, Esler 523). An important writer known as F. Scott Fitzgerald took control of the Jazz era (Badertscher).
World War I ended because of the signing of the treaty of Versailles. This treaty forced Germany to assume blame for World War I. The League of Nations was created to settle disputes between the nations and to avoid future disputes. The post war economy led the nation to the Great Depression, making Germany unable to pay for reparations. Germany’s reparations summed up to 30 million dollars. November 11, 1918 is known as Armistice Day, the day Germany surrendered in order to end World War I (Ellis, Esler, and Thompson 474).
In World War I France and Britain gained a lot of new land and resources when Germany suffered the most. The outcome in Eastern Europe led to communism and the United States joined World War I because of the sinking of the Lusitania in 1916 (Thompson). The sinking of the Lusitania killed 128 Americans (Ellis, Esler 468). The adults that have g...

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...ts on the society and for all of those who were involved through the Jazz era, Lost Generation, and the differences through the two wars.

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