THIS JUST IN: You work for a national

THIS JUST IN: You work for a nationalradio broadcasting company and it is your job to create the typed broadcast forthe evening news, recapping the experiences of Americans from before WWI allthe way to their experiences after the war.

For your story to be valid and acceptedby a wide audience, it must include the home front experiences of many groups andcover the topics below.

You are to highlight all seven keypoints below.

· Examine the experiencesof the local populations and varied demographics, including African Americans,women, and lower classes.

· What changed because ofthe movement from isolationism to expansionism?

· Assess the relevance ofpeople’s concerns about the war’s impact on the international community.

· Assess the war’seconomic impact, including the expansion of factories (big business) due towartime production.

· Compare and contrastpre-war and post-war experiences.

· Include at least threekey domestic figures and at least three key international figures.

· Include how the UnitedStates in the post-war era is positioned to become a superpower.

With any good news story, you mustutilize multiple sources. Your story must be a minimum of two pages. A minimumof two reputable sources must be used, cited, and referenced, one of which mustcome from the CSU Online Library. This means you will need to find at least oneadditional source on your own. Inappropriate resources or failure to use resourcesavailable in the CSU Online Library can lead to deductions (and loss of yournews audience).

Here is some extra reading sources.

UnitLesson

The Dawn ofthe 20th Century

Unit II left off with anevolving America at the turn of the century. Migrations from Europe rolled ineach day, the African American population of the American South began the firststages of a larger migration,  and what manypublicly had dubbed as a “Progressive Era” was, in reality, all too often ascene laced with corruption and inequality, especially for the lower classes. Inthe eastern cities, the now overcrowded tenements, strategically organized toresemble ethnic European neighborhoods, were the ticket for the ever-successfulpolitical machines. Even with their good works for the poor, the graft theyinstilled was arguably on or above par with the scandals of today. Labor, evenwith minor successes, still had trouble fighting for better conditions andwages. Big business, run by industry’s giants, still had the strength andinfluence to ensure that their profits were unaffected. The final act of thepassing century would be a question of America’s true intentions as a worldentity. Showing great interest in staking a claim throughout the Pacific,including trade in Asia, led down a winding path into controversial militaryaction and a question of imperial ambition.

That being said, the closeof the 19th century was not without its highlights. The technological andmarket revolutions of earlier decades, which bred smaller family sizes andskilled labor forces, saw the family unit begin to embrace leisure at alllevels of society. Reform groups, including women, African Americans, working classes,and even the church, were growing in influence and number. The politicalspectrum, fed by these reform-minded citizens, showed evidence of upheaval onthe state and local levels. The dawn of the 20^th century wouldreflect on these reforms. Also, with the rise of a world conflict, the U.S.would again be given anopportunity to prove its ambitions as either anisolationist economic juggernaut or an active western power.

The 20th century begins witha look back at progressivism. In cities such as New York, Boston, and Chicago, populationswere continuing to increase, laying the foundation for the modern cities asthey are today. The reforms, which had often started on the grassroots level,now began to inspire the support of the neighborhoods they supported.