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A chronicle of the American experience during World War I and the unexpected changes that rocked the country in its immediate aftermath—the Red Scare, race riots, women's suffrage, and Prohibition.The Great War's bitter outcome left the experience largely overlooked and forgotten in American history. This timely book is a reexamination of America's first global experience as we commemorate World War I's centennial. The U.S. had steered clear of the European conflagration known as the Great War for more than two years, but President Woodrow Wilson reluctantly led the divided country into the conflict with the goal of making the world "safe for democracy." The country assumed a global role for the first time and attempted to build the foundations for world peace, only to witness the experience go badly awry and it retreated into isolationism.Though overshadowed by the tens of millions of deaths and catastrophic destruction of World War II, the Great War was...
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- Author
- Garrett Peck
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Published
- 2018
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781643134819
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Political Science, Government & Politics
- Rating
- 4.3 / 5 (54 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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