what is the period between 1920-1945 called?

Answer 1

I my experience, no one really talks about that as a 25 year period.

1919-1939 is sometimes referred to as "the years between the wars."

More often, the 1920s are referred to as The Roaring 20s.

1929 to the start of WWII (either 1929-1939 or 1929-1942 -- depending where you are) is often called The Great Depression.

And 1939-1945 is referred to as WWII.

Answer 2

I don't know the exact period. In America, the 1920's were the roaring twenties. The end of the war, flappers, buying on credit.... which lead right into the great depression(1929ish - 1930's) FDR kinda helped with that with all his programs and then the war started and it ended in 1945. So I would call it post WW1 - WW2.

Answer 3

Ummm... there were a few eras, and they were very very different.

The mid-to-late twenties were referred to as The Roaring Twenties. There was a general lightheartedness, and a somewhat rebellious and explorative attitude. While the 1950's really started the era of "teenagers" (odd, I know, but in many earlier time periods, the idea of "teenagers" was unheard of), the teens and college students of the 1920's were the first to bring out this attitude. Dancing, flappers, smoking, moving pictures, jazz, speakeasies, etc. were all introduced or took on a whole new light. It was not uncommon to hear young people say something they really liked was "the cat's pajamas". Womens' sufferage was one of the hot topics. Thanks to Prohibition (the illegalizing of alchohol), organized crime and the Mafia grew out of control, since small time thugs began selling illegal alcohol, and the Mafia had a new source of finances.)

Then the stock market crash of 1929 happened, and it threw America and other parts into the world into the Great Depression. Things grew worse and worse, families being split up, hoboes all over the country, songs and movies being overly optimistic to provide the millions of poor people with a break from reality. Songs like "Happy Days Are Here Again" were popular, and some of the most widely-appreciated movies ever were made, including Gone With the Wind (Scarlett O'Hara's claim that she would never be hungry again is one of the most widely recognized scenes in American cinema - a sentiment many Americans at the time wanted to proclaim) and The Wizard of Oz (Dorothy's story of being whisked away from her drab life to a bright, exciting world, and then her real feeling of wanting her loved ones fulfilled both the need to escape, and made it seem okay to end up back where you started at the same time). Despite the glamorous world of movies, almost all Americans lived day to day, trying to find food (and by "food", I mean they would eat weak cabbage soup for days on end, or would have to stand for rotton potatoes for weeks). "Dustbowls" referred to the natural problem of draught in the Great Plains and the Midwest, which only made worse the financial and economical issues of the day. Families were split apart just so they could find work and could feed the entire family. In Harper Lee's book "To Kill A Mockingbird", which is set in the time of the Great Depression, Scout remembers that the day was slower then, there was nothing to buy, and no money to buy it with. Ironically, while the problems of having enough to eat, work, a place to live, etc. was constantly on the minds of everyone (even most children), a lot of people have managed to pull out of that era a kind of fondness. They have no desire to go back nor do they wish to ever be that poor again, but they do look back and see instead friendships, and simple pleasures that most of us today couldn't dream of. Since they had little, it took little to please them. They would remember a REALLY BIG TREAT of getting an ice cream cone on their birthdays, etc.

The Depression continued through the 1930's, and it was during that time, the government came up with social security and welfare, among other things. Most National Parks were built in that time, as a way for the government to generate work. By the late 1930's, the depression was getting a little better, but it wouldn't be until the early '40's when something would happen that would solve the Depression problem.

War has always been a major industry, and World War II was definately a war that generated work. The men went to war. The women were told it was their duty to go to the factories or work in the fields to make up for the work not getting done by the men overseas. After the bombing of Pearl Harbor, America jumped headfirst into World War II, and that signified the end of the Depression. Times were hard, but for different reasons, and people felt unified and patriotic (this would, by the way, be one of the last times America was at war and virtually all citizens were behind them).

So, yeah, the '20s were called the Roaring Twenties. The '30s were remembered as the Great Depression, and the first half of the 40's were the World War II Era.

Answer 4

Assuming you are talking about the US, it was the Machine Age

Answer 5

it covered to era's the great depression and the war years, hope this helps