Was world war one a turning point in American history?was America significantly different before/after the war

Question

any specific reasons why or why not?

Answer 1

WWI certainly brought us into the mainstream of world politics, yet we rejected the Treaty of Versailles and rejected membership into the League of Nations. WWII brought us permanently into the communion of nations with the USA rebuilding both Western Europe and Japan, the atomic bomb, permanent membership on the United Nations Security Council, and membership in numerous treaties (NATO, Pan American Union, SEATO, World Bank, etc). After WWI the women who left home to work men's jobs generally returned home, but after WWII, many women did up and leave the work world; they did not yield. WWII turned the world into something else. The USA, now straying from the teachings of George Washington, was now the key player. So it remains today.

Answer 2

World War I, military conflict, from August 1914 to November 1918, that involved many of the countries of Europe as well the United States and other nations throughout the world. World War I was one of the most violent and destructive wars in European history. Of the 65 million men who were mobilized, more than 10 million were killed and more than 20 million wounded. The term World War I did not come into general use until a second worldwide conflict broke out in 1939 (see World War II). Before that year, the war was known as the Great War or the World War.
While WWI encouraged more racial integration of blacks with whites during the war, the actual social structure of society including products and economics did not change much.

Some known as the Lost Generation Writers (Fitzgerald, Hemingway) who fought in the war upon returning to the states became disillusioned with the poor values adopted during the war. They moved to Paris, France to write about the America they lost. Modernist literary philosophy began in literature. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald featured the deterioration of the family and values.
Materialism became more rampant along with a deterioration of values. The social classes intermingled more. In the aftermath of World War I, the political order of Europe came crashing to the ground. The German, Austro-Hungarian, and Russian empires ceased to exist, and the Ottoman Empire soon followed them into oblivion. New nations emerged, borders were radically shifted, and ethnic conflicts erupted. Victors and vanquished alike faced an enormous recovery challenge after four years of financial loss, economic deprivation, and material destruction. Amid this chaotic situation, the leaders of the victorious coalition assembled in Paris to forge a new international system that would replace the old order. The decisions they made would determine the future of Europe, and much of the rest of the world, for decades to come.

J. R. R. Tolkien was inspired to write his Lord of the Rings based perhaps a lot on his experience with the war in spite

New technology: U-Boats, tanks, chemical warfare by Germans,
photography was used during this war more than before.

Thanks for the thought provoking question.

Answer 3

No the turning point for America was post WWII. After WWI America basically went back how it was before the war. It wanted to forget that it happened. This can be seen in how the people and congress treated Wilson and his League of Nations.

Answer 4

America during most of WWI said it was Europe's problem, not America's. But America realized once the Allied nation's fall in Europe, the central powers would be knocking on their door next. WWII they tried to stay out agian until they were attacked. America is now all over the world, trying to fix everyone's problems and handing out our money to everyone who cries for it.

Answer 5

It was our introduction on the world stage as an international power. When the war began, we had a very small military. When it was over, ours was the largest one on earth.

Answer 6

It really wasn't a turning point but more solidified the American ideology of isolationism from the "problems" of Europe.

Answer 7

i may say it was the fight for indenpende, that the america changed from not in ww1 nor ww11 but suffer humilating deafeat in vietnam but most succesful in invasion of the philiipines until now

Answer 8

Yes, we were isolationists prior to the war...we were global after the war.

Answer 9

I would say it was WWII.

Answer 10

you've being asking the wrong person, kid....