World War I: The Great War Was also the Great Enabler of Progressive Governance

Tags: The Fed, U.S. History, War and Foreign Policy

11/23/2022 George Ford Smith

Historians praise the US entry into World War I because it enabled an Allied victory. But it also led to the economic disasters of the 1920s and ’30s.

Original Article: “World War I: The Great War Was also the Great Enabler of Progressive Governance”

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