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Images of the Era 1913-1945

 

Through two world wars and the Great Depression, the Capitol retained its familiar form Silent marchers in New York City protested rising violence nationwide against African-Americans, 1917 A U.S. Army gun crew fired at entrenched German soldiers on the Western Front, 1918 In 1920, with the Nineteenth Amendment, women gained the right to vote in national elections Police destroyed beer kegs when the Eighteenth Amendment took effect in 1920, banning the sale of alcoholic beverages
The Wall Street crash of 1929 left many people penniless and triggered the Great Depression Breadlines sprang up in cities across the country during the Great Depression of the 1930s Through the WPA, the government offered employment on public projects to millions of Americans during the 1930s In the 1930s, workers around the country staged sit-down strikes to demand more favorable working conditions Japan’s attack on the U.S. fleet in Pearl Harbor brought the United States into World War II
American troops prepare to land at Normandy, World War II During World War II, the U.S. government interned approximately 110,000 Japanese Americans in camps like Manzanar in California With men away fighting in World War II, millions of women entered the workforce in the 1940s The NAACP worked to eradicate the racial discrimination symbolized by Jim Crow American soldiers in Paris celebrated Japan’s surrender, which ended World War II in August 1945

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