1. World War I and 1920s Consumerism
In a cartoon posted in the Chicago Tribune in 1919, an immigrant marked "undesirable" is seen approaching the US with a bomb as a head. ... In essence, the cartoon is portraying American sentiment towards immigration, marking immigrants as ticking bombs that would eventually set off and destroy the US and its values. ... New advertising techniques encouraged people to buy all types of different products through movie theaters, billboards, magazines, newspapers and radios ("How and Why Did the USA Achieve Prosperity in the 1920s?...
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