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Question: What effects did WWI have socially!.!.!.!?
On Canada!?
On the USA!?

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1) It reinstituted the "buffalo" soldier as a fighting man!. This somewhat limited President's Wilson's efforts to put the Blacks back in their place!. However, the economic/social position of Blacks did deteriorate during the Wilson administration!. Wilson was finally denied a third term when Warren Harding became what the American public, at the time, thought was our first Black president!. They might have been right, but Mr!. Harding never said one way or the other!.

2) It altered the way women were thought of!. As 4!.3 million men went off to war, the job of producing the war material in factories and farms increasing went to women!. Women moved into traditionally male jobs!. Economic opportunities began opening up for women as a result of this war!. With these new economic opportunities along with the newly invented Diaphragm, came the sexual revolution of the 1920's!.

3) The war devastated industrial Europe!. That left America as the industrial giant of the world!.

4) The war advanced the science of Aviation!. This made air travel and air mail possible, and increased communication across the USA and Canada!.

5) The war unleashed the full furry of the swine flu!. This devastated a generation by attacking American and Canadian youth more than the aged, and the East Coast more than the West Coast!. This lead to a quickening of the Western population shift!. The swine flu also devastated the American Indians, marginalizing them!.

6) It got Americans used to denying themselves various foods voluntarily when asked by the government!. This lead to the prohibition, and eventually the war on drugs!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

It primed the American and Canadian industrial machinery, heralded in income taxes and debt, and fueled the Roaring 20's!. Www@QuestionHome@Com

it put our country into dept, and brought the morale up of our country after it was overWww@QuestionHome@Com