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Europe began exploiting colonies, as these colonies provided them with raw materials to manufacture goods.
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U.S was in a state of neutrality and were not involved in any war or allies to any foreign countries.
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Many Americans moved North because of the Jim crow laws and low employment opportunities.
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Outbreak of a deadly flu, migration of soldiers helped spread this virus. 675,000 people die
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the 18th amendment prohibited the sale and manufacture of alcoholic products
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the day the stock market crashed. Investors had lost more than 30 million in a year.
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The deepest and longest-lasting economic downturn in the history of the Western industrialized world