The history of the United States from 1917 to 1945 was marked by World War I, the interwar period, the Great Depression, and World War II.
The Battle of Iwo Jima, 1945. The World Wars ended the United States' policy of isolationism and left it as a world superpower.
Navy poster by Howard Chandler Christy
A 1919 sheet music cover, noting that many young people were abandoning farms for the excitement of the cities
Photo taken with newly invented Kodachrome film at the 1939 New York World's Fair, with the League of Nations and the Polish pavilions visible
The history of the United States from 1865 to 1917 was marked by the Reconstruction era, the Gilded Age, and the Progressive Era, and includes the rise of industrialization and the resulting surge of
History of the United States (1917–1945)
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State Street in Chicago, c. 1900. The post Civil War era saw the rise of the United States as a major industrial economy.
Reconstruction gave male, Black farmers, businessmen and soldiers the right to vote for the first time in 1867, as celebrated by Harper's Weekly on its front cover, Nov. 16, 1867.
Temporary quarters for Volga Germans in central Kansas, 1875
Grange poster hailing the yeoman farmer, 1873