Section 1: After World War I The end of World War I did not bring an end to tragedy. By a dreadful irony, just as the carnage of World War I was coming to an end, a world-wide pandemic called the Spanish Flu broke out. This killed between 50 and 100 million people, far more than […]
Great Depression
The United States of America – II
The Early Years of the Twentieth Century The start of the 20th century saw the United States established as a truly continental country. Its territory stretched across North America from the Atlantic to the Pacific, and although much of it, especially in the West, remained wilderness, even its less populated parts were beginning to fill […]