Real Art, War Art, and the Politics of Peace Memorials in the United States after World War I

In Latin America, international rivalry over aviation followed World War I. In its early form, it consisted of a commercial scramble among several Western European nations and the United States to sell airplanes and aviation products and to establish airlines in Latin America. Somewhat later, expanding European aviation activities posed an implicit threat to the Panama Canal.Before World War I, certain aerophiles had sought to advance the airplane as the panacea for the transportation problem in Latin America. The aviation pioneer Alberto Santos-Dumont of Brazil and the Aero Club of America, an influential private United States association, were in the van. In 1916, efforts by these enthusiasts led to the formation of the Pan American Aviation Federation, which they envisioned as the means of promoting and publicizing aviation throughout the Western Hemisphere.

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PLAYING ON UNCLE SAM'S TEAM: AMERICAN CHILDHOODS DURING WORLD WAR I

The Journal of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era ◽

10.1017/s1537781418000312 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 17 (4) ◽

pp. 677-690 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Mischa Honeck

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Twentieth Century ◽

Young People ◽

World War I ◽

Children And Adolescents ◽

The United States ◽

World War ◽

Early Twentieth Century ◽

Childhood And Youth ◽

Constructions Of Childhood

If World War I has interested historians of the United States considerably less than other major wars, it is also true that children rank among the most neglected actors in the literature that exists on the topic. This essay challenges this limited understanding of the roles children and adolescents played in this transformative period by highlighting their importance in three different realms. It shows how childhood emerged as a contested resource in prewar debates over militarist versus pacifist education; examines the affective power of images of children—American as well as foreign—in U.S. wartime propaganda; and maps various social arenas in which the young engaged with the war on their own account. While constructions of childhood and youth as universally valid physical and developmental categories gained greater currency in the early twentieth century, investigations of young people in wartime reveal how much the realities of childhood and youth differed according to gender, class, race, region, and age.

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The UK-US Game and UK's Return to Gold Standard

Finance and Market ◽

10.18686/fm.v5i4.2964 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 5 (4) ◽

pp. 324

Author(s):

Zheming Zhang

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War Ii ◽

World War I ◽

Economic System ◽

Gold Standard ◽

International Economic Order ◽

The United States ◽

World War ◽

The World ◽

The Uk

<p>With the continuous development and evolution of the United States, especially the economic center shift after World War II, the United States become the economic hegemon instead of the UK and thus it seized the economic initiative of the world. After the World War I, the European countries gradually withdraw from the gold standard. In order to stabilize the world economy development and the international economic order, the United States prepared to build the economic system related with its own interests so as to force the UK to return to the gold standard. The game between the United States and the UK shows the significance of economic initiative. Among them, the outcome of the two countries in the fight of the financial system also demonstrates a significant change in the world economic system.</p>

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’Det er easy at tale engelsk også’. Amerikadansk i 1960’erne og 1970’erne

NyS Nydanske Sprogstudier ◽

10.7146/nys.v47i47.19916 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 47 (47) ◽

pp. 39 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Karoline Kühl

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

World War I ◽

20Th Century ◽

The United States ◽

Rapid Decline ◽

Language Loss ◽

World War ◽

Melting Pot ◽

Post War ◽

American Society

The conditions for the Danish language among Danish emigrants and their descendants in the United States in the first half of the 20th century were tough: The group of Danish speakers was relatively small, the Danes did not settle together as other immigrant groups did, and demographic circumstances led many young, unmarried Danish men to marry non-Danish speaking partners. These were all factors that prevented the formation of tight-knit Danish-speaking communities. Furthermore, US nationalistic propaganda in the wake of World War I and the melting-pot effect of post-war American society in the 1950s contributed to a rapid decline in the use of Danish among the emigrants. Analyses of recordings of 58 Danish-American speakers from the 1970s show, however, that the language did not decline in an unsystematic process of language loss, only to be replaced quickly and effectively by English. On the contrary, the recordings show contactinduced linguistic innovations in the Danish of the interviewees, which involve the creation of specific lexical and syntactical American Danish features that systematically differ from Continental Danish. The article describes and discusses these features, and gives a thorough account of the socioeconomic and linguistic conditions for this speaker group.

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